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A Short Biography of Ferdinand de Saussure

Author Name:

Ferdinand de Saussure

Born As:

Other Names:

Ferdinand de Saussure

Born:

26 Nov 1857

Died:

22 Feb 1913




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Linguist                          
Selected works:

Écrits de linguistique générale - edition prepared by Simon Bouquet and Rudolf Engler, Paris: Gallimard -  English translation: Writings in General Linguistics - 2002 - Oxford - 2006
This volume, which consists mostly of material previously published by Engler, includes an attempt at reconstructing a text from a set of Saussure's manuscript pages headed "The Double Essence of Language", found in 1996 in Geneva. These pages contain ideas already familiar to Saussure scholars, both from Engler's critical edition of the Course and from another unfinished book manuscript of Saussure's, published in 1995 by Maria Pia Marchese - Phonétique: Il manoscritto di Harvard Houghton Library bMS Fr 266 - 8, Padova: Unipress, 1995

 Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-européenes - 1878 - Memoir on the Primitive System of Vowels in Indo-European Languages, Leipzig: Teubner. - online version in Gallica Program, Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Cours de linguistique générale - 1916 editor C. Bally and A. Sechehaye, with the collaboration of A. Riedlinger, Lausanne and Paris: Payot; trans. W. Baskin, Course in General Linguistics, Glasgow: Fontana/Collins, 1977

Recueil des publications scientifiques de F. de Saussure, editor C. Bally and L. Gautier, Lausanne and Geneva: Payot - 1922

 Saussure’s Third Course of Lectures in General Linguistics - 1910–1911: Emile Constantin ders notlarından - - 1993 - Language and Communication series, volume. 12, trans. and ed. E. Komatsu and R. Harris, Oxford: Pergamon.                          
                          
                          
Widely considered to be one of the fathers of 20th-century linguistics.