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de
Saussure
Father of Linguistics
Silvia Lee
6. l’Ecole pratique des hautes études
Taught (11 years): Knight
• Sanskrit of the
• Gothic Legion
• Old High German of Honor
7. University of Geneva 1891
Professor
• Sanskrit
• Indo-Eurpoean
langauges
• Course of
General
Linguistics
(1907-1911)
8. Doctorate in
1880:
Dissertation on
the Primitive
Vowel System in
Indo-European
Languages
15. Langue Parole
(system) (put into practice)
Language in social, cultural context
Editor's Notes Mineralogist (chemistry, chrystal structure, minerals)Entomologist (insects)Taxonomist (classified species) Age of 21 Word=combination of meaning and formPhonology and morphology=sufficient for structural linguistics, but not complete. created small set of rules to generate all sentences of language