The relation between Language (the theories of language), Law (the philosophy of law) and the Archive (its presence in literary studies, linguistics, sociology, and contemporary historiography). Sheds light on a group of research concepts that ostensibly belong to independent fields of inquiry; namely, the ontology of language, text, document, and sentence as scientific objects/subjects. This includes an exploration of the links between ‘social facts,’ laws, and rules; and the “empirical” status of the archive as a source of linguistic corpora and documentary material for various fields within the humanities and social sciences.
