It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
-- Ferdinand de Saussure
   
Ferdinand de Saussure   Name:
Ferdinand de Saussure
Type:
Educator
Nationality:
Swiss
Birth:
November 26, 1857
Death:
February 22, 1913
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