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Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss
Educator
Born:
Nov 26
,
1857
Died:
Feb 22
,
1913
Any
Differences
Different
Grammar
Language
Will
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In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Game
Kind
Exactly
Fact
Could
Scholars
Fail
Terms
Another
How
Concrete
Wonder
Different
In Fact
Then
Should
Engaged
Languages
Connections
Comparing
Eventually
Interpreted
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Language
Will
Strictly
Those
Recognise
Restricted
General
Laws
Rational
Operating
Another
Linguistics
Branch
Manner
Separating
Languages
Phenomena
Universally
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Language
First
Philosophical
Carried
Invented
Unchanged
Never
Had
French
Greeks
Any
Grammar
View
Phases
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Differences
System
Combined
Ideas
Sound
Linguistic
Series
Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Will
Say
Sign
Systems
Case
Part
Involve
Same
Any
Psychology
Social
Languages
Applicable
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Language
Correcting
Directed
Studies
Merely
Towards
Longer
Were
Grammar
Henceforth
The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.
Ferdinand de Saussure
History
Business
Will
Few
Possible
Object
Only
Study
Trace
Known
Scientific
Limited
Very
Task
The History Of
Languages
Naturally
Extent
Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Communication
Words
First
Relation
Relations
Independent
Kind
Spoken
Within
Subject
Which
Based
Speech
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