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Ferdinand de Saussure 1. Biography 2. Background Information 3. Studies about Saussure’s Theory 4. Saussure’s Linguistic Legacy Ferdinand de Saussure Modern linguistics began from the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), who is often described as “father of modern linguistics” and “a master of a discipline which he made modern. And all linguistic studies in the twentieth century are Saussurean linguistics. Ferdinand de Saussure November 26, 1857: Ferdinand de Saussure was born into Scientific family, in Geneva, Switzerland, to a family with a long history of contributions to the sciences. 1875: Inclined to follow his ancestors footsteps into the physical sciences, he began attending the prestigious University of Geneva 1878-1879: studied comparative grammar and Indo-European language sat the University of Leipzig 1878: Memoire sur le systeme primitive des voyelles dans les langues indo-europeennes (Thesis on the original system of vowels in Indo-European Languages) (《论印欧语元音的原始系统》) and Remarques de grammaire et de phonetique (Comments on Grammar and Phonetics) Ferdinand de Saussure 1880: doctoral dissertation on the use of the absolute genitive in Sanskrit, and finished summa cum laude at the University of Leipzig 1882: an active member of the Linguistic Society of Paris and served as its secretary for ten years 1891: professor of Indo-European languages and comparative grammar at the University of Geneva 1907-1911: Saissure lectured on general linguistics in the University of Geneva. February 22, 1913: De Saussure died from cancer at age 56 1916: the publication of Course in General Linguistics (C Bally and A. Sechehye ) Ferdinand de Saussure Saussure’s ideas were developed along three lines: linguistics, sociology, and psychology. 1. In linguistics, he was greatly influenced by the American linguist W.D. Whitney (1827—94), who was working within essentially the Neo-grammarian tradition but raised the question of the sign. 2. Follo