Fitzgerald wasn't alone in intuiting the social relationship of language and thought; George Orwell wrote of "gumming together long strips of words which have already been set into order by someone else".
He also wrote a brief, pointed memoir, "My Dyslexia," which highlights, in the most personal terms, the tenuous relationship of language to the inner life.
In 1903 he published what is generally considered his most important work, Introduction à l'étude comparative des langues indo-européennes ("Introduction to the Comparative Study of the Indo-European Languages"), which explained the relationships of the languages to one another and to the parent Indo-European tongue.
However, the meaningfulness of these correlations is somewhat questionable, given that while the broad relationships of the languages considered here are generally accepted, the lexicostatistics that the actual distances between languages are based on are at best a first estimate with numerous potentially problematic approximations [Additional file 1: Supplemental Section 3].
They have unearthed their ancestors' bones and old, broken pots, deciphered the relationships of their languages, and sequenced their chromosomes in search of an answer.
The scantiness of the material (fewer than 300 words) makes it impossible to be sure of the relationship of this language to Germanic and its daughter languages.
Such authors sometimes argue that explanations involving culture depend on interpretive relationships between elements of language or other cultural elements, rather than causal relationships.
Moreover, since previous reports have indicated that cognition and function may be interrelated in patients with moderate to severe AD [ 21, 22], we also evaluated relationships between measures of language function and other instruments used to assess AD status.
"The main problem of the government will be less the relationship of the language communities and more the relationship with the trade unions," he said.
Arthur Conan Doyle's tales set the stage for the classic Holmes-Watson relationship, "the relish of language and the cerebral tennis matches that go on between them as they unravel this mystery," as Mr. Law described it.
