Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Un systeme ou tout se tient
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| Author: | Laurie Bauer |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email |
| Query: |
I've been looking for the origin of the famous structuralist dictum that a language is 'un système où tout se tient'. A search of the net finds it variously attributed to de Saussure or to Meillet (I believe the latter is correct), but NO reference! Can anyone supply the reference? Thank you! Laurie Bauer Professor of Linguistics School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Victoria University of Wellington PO Box 600 Wellington New Zealand Fax: +64 4 463 5604 DDI: + 64 4 463 5619 e-mail: laurie.bauer@vuw.ac.nz web: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/lals |
