From Course in General Linguistic of Saussure and Syntactic Structure of Chomsky, the goal of linguistic research is the language system rather than the application of language.

• 无论是现代语言学之父Saussure的《普通语言学教程》还是Chomsky的代表作《句法结构》，其研究对象都是语言系统本身而非语言的应用。