Linguistic analysis yields, for each language, a most complex picture with a list of phonemes, a prosodical pattern, a set of morphological alternation, a grammar which some will still divide into a morphology and syntax, and a lexicon, a kind of rambling and unstable structure with which linguists do not know too well how to operate.The ideal solution would be to reduce all these aspect to one spectrum.
- Martinet (1962), a pag.68