Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure

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Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid the foundations for modern structural linguistics and semiotics.

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instanceOf human
linguist
semiotician
citizenship Switzerland
countryOfBirth Switzerland
countryOfDeath Switzerland
dateOfBirth 1857-11-26
dateOfDeath 1913-02-22
educatedAt University of Berlin
University of Geneva
University of Leipzig
employer University of Geneva
familyName de Saussure
fieldOfWork linguistics
philology
semiotics
fullName Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure
gender male
givenName Ferdinand
influenced Claude Lévi-Strauss
Louis Hjelmslev
Prague linguistic circle
Roland Barthes
Roman Jakobson
structuralism
knownFor Course in General Linguistics
founding modern semiotics
founding structural linguistics
languageOfWorkOrName French
memberOf Geneva School of linguistics
movement Geneva School of linguistics
structuralism
nationality Swiss
nativeLanguage French
notableIdea language as a system of differences without positive terms
notableWork Cours de linguistique générale
occupation professor
placeOfBirth Geneva
placeOfDeath Vufflens-le-Château
studied Indo-European languages
comparative linguistics
taughtSubject Indo-European linguistics
general linguistics
theorized arbitrariness of the sign
concept of linguistic sign
diachronic linguistics
distinction between langue and parole
signifier and signified
synchronic linguistics

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Ferdinand de Saussure fullName Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure