Course in General LinguisticsThe Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been applied to such diverse areas as art, architecture, folklore, literary criticism, and philosophy. |
Contents
Physiological Phonetics | |
CHAPTER ONE Sound Types | |
Sounds in Spoken Sequences | |
General Observations | |
Grammatical Consequences of Phonetic Evolution | |
Analogy | |
Analogy and Evolution | |
Popular Etymology | |
Diachronic Units Identities and Realities | |
On the Diversity of Languages | |
Causes of Geographical Diversity | |
Nature of the Linguistic Sign | |
Invariability and Variability of the Sign | |
Static Linguistics and Evolutionary Linguistics | |
General Observations | |
Identities Realities Values | |
Syntagmatic Relations and Associative Relations | |
Grammar and its Subdivisions | |
Propagation of linguistic waves | |
The Two Perspectives of Diachronic Linguistics | |
Reconstructions | |
Linguistic Evidence in Anthropology and Prehistory | |
Language Families and Linguistic Types | |
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Course in General Linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure,Albert Sechehaye,Albert Reidlinger Snippet view - 1974 |
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adduction agglutination analogy analysis aperture arbitrary articulation associative auditory became combinations common compared comparison concept connexion consider consonants contrast corresponding diachronic facts diachronic linguistics dialects differentiation diphthong distinction distinguish Editorial note elements English entities established etymology evolution evolutionary linguistics example existence factors flexional French word German given glottis grammatical Greek historical idea important individual IndoEuropean involved kind language Latin laws linguistic sign linguistic structure linguistic units meaning nasal nature Neogrammarians noun Old High German original period phenomenon phonetic change plural popular etymology possible principle pronounced pronunciation ProtoIndoEuropean question recognise reconstruction relations represented result Sanskrit Saussure Saussure’s semiological separate signal simply social sonant sound change sound pattern speakers speech sounds spelling spoken sequence stem suffix syllable synchronic synchronic linguistics syntagmatic Translator’s note verb vocal voiceless vowel Vulgar Latin whereas whole writing written