Beyond Pure Reason: Ferdinand de Saussure's Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents
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2012
Online ISBN:
9780231504454
Print ISBN:
9780231157803
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Toward Immutability: Constructing the Past Toward Immutability: Constructing the Past
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Reconstruction or Construction? The Saussurean Revolution in Comparative Linguistics Reconstruction or Construction? The Saussurean Revolution in Comparative Linguistics
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Two Faces of Immutability: Synchrony and Diachrony Two Faces of Immutability: Synchrony and Diachrony
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Toward Mutability: Duration Toward Mutability: Duration
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The Phantom of Historical Laws The Phantom of Historical Laws
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Accidents and Coincidences: The Transmission of Collective Memory Accidents and Coincidences: The Transmission of Collective Memory
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A World in Transition: Saussure and Friedrich Schlegel A World in Transition: Saussure and Friedrich Schlegel
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A Tentative Compromise: Linguistics as a “Natural” and a “Historical” Science A Tentative Compromise: Linguistics as a “Natural” and a “Historical” Science
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Chapter
Five Diachrony and History
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Pages
111–136
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Published:September 2012
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Gasparov, Boris, 'Diachrony and History', Beyond Pure Reason: Ferdinand de Saussure's Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents (New York, NY , 2012; online edn, Columbia Scholarship Online, 19 Nov. 2015), https://doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231157803.003.0006, accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
Abstract
This chapter first examines the only book Saussure published in his lifetime Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-européennes (1878), which overturned the conventional approach to the problem of reconstructing Indo-European (IE) vowels. It then discusses how Saussure seemed to have lost interest in linguistic studies by the 1900s; the similarities and the differences between Schlegel and Saussure; and Saussure's efforts to distinguish between language as a “natural” object and a “historical” one (or in his own terms, between language as “static” and “motional”), a move that would in effect “cut” linguistics into two sciences.
Subject
Semantics
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