Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure
Geboortenaam	Ferdinand de Saussure
Gebore	(1857-11-26)26 November 1857 Geneva, Switserland
Oorlede	22 Februarie 1913 (op 55) Vufflens-le-Château, Vaud, Switserland
Nasionaliteit	Switserland
Handtekening

Ferdinand de Saussure (26 November 1857 – 22 Februarie 1913) was 'n Switserse taalkundige. Sy idees het die grondslag gelê vir baie beduidende ontwikkelings in linguistiek in die 20ste eeu.^[1][2]

1. ↑ Robins, R. H. 1979. A Short History of Linguistics, 2nd Edition. Longman Linguistics Library. London and New York. p. 201: Robins writes Saussure's statement of "the structural approach to language underlies virtually the whole of modern linguistics".
2. ↑ Harris, R. and T. J. Taylor. 1989. Landmarks in Linguistic Thought: The Western Tradition from Socrates to Saussure. 2nd Edition. Chapter 16.