| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:person 
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                                | gptkbp:almaMater | gptkb:University_of_Geneva gptkb:University_of_Leipzig
 
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                                | gptkbp:birthDate | 1857-11-26 
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                                | gptkbp:birthPlace | gptkb:Geneva,_Switzerland 
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                                | gptkbp:citation | gptkb:Course_in_General_Linguistics_(1916,_posthumous) 
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                                | gptkbp:deathDate | 1913-02-22 
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                                | gptkbp:deathPlace | gptkb:Vufflens-le-Château,_Switzerland 
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                                | gptkbp:field | linguistics semiotics
 
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                                | gptkbp:fullName | gptkb:Ferdinand_de_Saussure 
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                                | gptkbp:influenced | gptkb:Claude_Lévi-Strauss gptkb:Jacques_Derrida
 gptkb:Noam_Chomsky
 gptkb:Roland_Barthes
 gptkb:Roman_Jakobson
 
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                                | gptkbp:knownFor | structuralism founder of modern linguistics
 
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                                | gptkbp:languageStudied | gptkb:Indo-European_languages gptkb:Sanskrit
 gptkb:Germanic_languages
 Lithuanian
 
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                                | gptkbp:legacy | foundational figure in structuralism influenced 20th-century linguistics
 influenced anthropology
 influenced literary theory
 influenced philosophy
 influenced semiotics
 
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                                | gptkbp:memberOf | gptkb:Linguistic_Society_of_Paris 
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                                | gptkbp:nationality | Swiss 
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                                | gptkbp:notableWork | gptkb:Course_in_General_Linguistics 
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                                | gptkbp:occupation | gptkb:linguist gptkb:semiotician
 
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                                | gptkbp:parent | gptkb:Louis_de_Saussure gptkb:Louise_Elisabeth_de_Saussure
 
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                                | gptkbp:spouse | gptkb:Marie_Faesch 
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                                | gptkbp:taughtAt | gptkb:University_of_Geneva gptkb:École_Pratique_des_Hautes_Études
 
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                                | gptkbp:theory | structural linguistics langue and parole
 signifier and signified
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:Stagmomantis gptkb:Tenodera_sinensis
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 6 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | Saussure 
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