Idiomatology

Mr. Alan Gardiner's Home Thoughts on Language emboldens one to ask whether there is not room for a science of Idiomatology* as a sister to Semantics.

His aim is language characterization as to its system, a kind of idiomatology.

If we were to identify the langue strictly with the object of linguistic description then one aspect of the problem of defining the langue would involve drawing the line between that aspect of the speakers’ knowledge of X which is relevant to a linguistic description of X and those aspects (the idiomatology) which are not.