Alexander’s Reviews > Prolegomena to a Theory of Language > Status Update

OK Hjelmslev really meant it when it called this a prolegomena: it's filled with definitions, principles, setting out of nomenclature, and desperately sparse moments of exemplification. Still, its interest is in circumscribing the specificity of this nascent science of language, linguistics, such as it was in Hjelmslev's time, taking up and exceeding Saussure.