Course in General Linguistics

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Open Court, Jun 1, 1986 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 236 pages
The 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

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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