Definition of Ferdinand de Saussure

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

Exact synonyms: De Saussure, Saussure
Generic synonyms: Linguist, Linguistic Scientist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ferdinand De Saussure

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Feosol
Ferber
Ferdiad
Ferdinand
Ferdinand I
Ferdinand II
Ferdinand III
Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe Morton
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand V
Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix
Ferdinand and Isabella
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Ferdinand de Saussure (current term)
Ferdinand the Catholic
Ferdinand the Great
Fere phenomenon
Ferenc Molnar
Fergie
Fergon
Fergus
Fergus mac Róich
Ferguses
Ferguson
Fergusson's incision
Feringee
Feringees
Feringhee

Literary usage of Ferdinand de Saussure

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

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) ..."

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