ABSTRACT
In Linguistic Form, C. E. Bazell makes some remarks on the relation
between structural linguistics and linguistic description:
It is commonly supposed that one of the chief aims of
structural linguistics is that of providing new techniques
of grammatical description. It was not left to the twentieth
century structuralists to discover the means of describing
a language adequately enough for all practical purposes,
including the practical purposes of the professional linguist:
good grammars of the last century do not convey less
information, or even less relevant information, than their
most modern counterparts. But it is held that there was
something gravely amiss in the method of presentation. The
method was not uniform.
