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Ferdinand De Saussure

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Noun

1. de saussure, ferdinand de saussure, saussure

Swiss linguist and expert in historical linguistics whose lectures laid the foundations for synchronic linguistics (1857-1913)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ferdinand De Saussure

see synonyms of ferdinand de saussure
Swiss linguist. The founder of structural linguistics, he declared that there is only an arbitrary relationship between a linguistic sign and that which it signifies. The posthumously published collection of his lectures, Course in General Linguistics (1916), is a seminal work of modern linguistics.

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