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Definition of Ferdinand de Saussure
1. Noun. Swiss linguist and expert in historical linguistics whose lectures laid the foundations for synchronic linguistics (1857-1913).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ferdinand De Saussure
Literary usage of Ferdinand de Saussure
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1. Science and Learning in France: With a Survey of Opportunities for American by John Henry Wigmore (1917)
"Ferdinand DE SAUSSURE (1857-1913) taught for a decade at the École des Hautes
Études, and his work, with that of В real, has had great influence upon French ..."
2. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1844)
"... remember that when he began his studies in linguistics in London University
in 1919 the work of the Swiss scholar Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) who ..."
3. A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students by Peter Giles (1901)
"These new doctrines were excellently summarised by Ferdinand de Saussure in a
work of great freshness, ..."
4. Lectures on Science, Philosophy and Art, 1907-1908 by Columbia University (1908)
"... in den europaischen Sprachen" (1879), and by the Swiss philologist, Ferdinand
de Saussure, whose "Memoire sur le systeme primitif des voyelles" (1879) ..."