Saussure
[ French soh-syr ]
/ French soʊˈsür /
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noun
Fer·di·nand de [French fer-dee-nahnduh], /French fɛr diˈnɑ̃ də/, 1857–1913, Swiss linguist.
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Saussure
/ (French sosyr) /
noun
Ferdinand de (fɛrdinɑ̃ də). 1857–1913, Swiss linguist. He pioneered structuralism in linguistics and the separation of scientific language description from historical philological studies
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