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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Predicate Object
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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