[…] the separation that is made between the individual linguistic sciences and general linguistic theory seems to me to be the least justified of all. Each of these sciences merges with general linguistic science. Each must be absorbed into it and to an even greater extent the more their scientific nature increases, the more they strip off everything that is empirical and fortuitous. We must never lose sight of what is generally true, even in the most exacting particular study […]. (p. 67)
- Schuchardt (1972)