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Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 27:2/3 (2000) ► pp.359–377

Are we all saussureans now?

| University of New Orleans
This paper addresses the question whether all of the most important linguistic theories of the 20th century are Saussurean. Beginning with Engler’s observation that there are so many interpretive possibilities in the Saussurean material which has appeared that it is even possible for opposing viewpoints to be Saussurean, the discussion ranges over European and American theorists from Bloomfield to Roy Harris, and questions to what extent each followed the Genevan master.
Published online: 8 April 2002
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