On Thursday, June 27, 2013 5:40:39 PM UTC+5:30, Vlastimil Brom wrote: > Hi, > > I belive, the author is Roman Jakobson, see the respective post about > this very question: > http://linguistlist.org/issues/9/9-32.html
Thanks! > > There seem to be several variations, > Another remarkable linguist Eugenio Coseriu mentions this in his paper > (Sprache: Strukturen und Funktionen ... Tübingen 1979, p. 119). > > The German text is besides mentioning Jakobson almost fully equivalent > > to you original quote: > "R. Jakobson bemerkt mit Recht, daß sich die Sprachen nicht durch das, > was sie sagen können, unterscheiden, sondern durch das, was sie sagen > müssen." > > http://books.google.cz/books?id=JkGCkC8RYcEC > p. 119 My German does not go way beyond: Vielen Dank (for the first)! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list