Through his lectures, posthumously collected as Cours de linguistique générale (1916; translated as Course in General Linguistics, 1959), Ferdinand de Saussure inaugurated modern linguistics and inspired in a generation of scholars the...

Although linguistics existed as a science as early as the beginning of the nineteenth century, Ferdinand de Saussure, born in 1857 in Geneva, son of an eminent Swiss naturalist, is generally regarded as the founder of modern linguistics....

Branch of American structuralism in the 1940s and 1950s characterized by the works of Harris, Bloch, Trager, Joos, and others, which superseded the Bloomfield era. Harris’ Methods in Structural Linguistics (1951) is viewed as the standard work of...

Widely accepted hypothesis concerning the reconstruction of a portion of basic Indo-European. In general, three consonantal laryngeals (notation: h1, h2, h3) are reconstructed. The existence of laryngeals is surmised based on morphological structural...

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Saussure and his Interpreters. By Roy HARRIS. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2001. vi+224 pp. 44[pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7486-1308-0. In a very readable study, Roy Harris examines the mis/representation of Saussurean ideas by certain linguists and by French thinkers of a Structuralist and...

The mythology of Valentinus, the Christian Gnostic, is replete with the fascinating suggestion that names have salvific power. In The Gospel of Truth, he says that God uses names to call beings into existence, and that "the name of the Father is the...