![]() Saussure privileges langue as a way of delimiting the object of study, which he sees as an internal system of terms regulated by the differences, or oppositions, among them. Saussure makes a basic distinction between an “internal” linguistics of the language system ( langue) and an “external” linguistics of the “individual part of language” ( parole). In the earlier work, Saussure already demonstrates an explicit awareness of the systemic imperatives that are assumed to drive sound change. There is considerable continuity in both theory and methodology between Saussure's first published study, Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo‐européennes (Essay on the Early System of Vowels in Indo‐European Languages, 1879), and the discussion in part 3 of CLG of sound change. Saussure draws on his comprehensive knowledge of the historical processes of linguistic change, a theme ever present in CLG, as it is throughout Saussure's career. ![]() ![]() The cycle of lectures on which this text is based occupied a relatively brief period in Saussure's scholarly life, which was mostly spent working within the tradition of comparative and historical linguistics with which CLG is generally presented as a decisive break. ![]() Swiss linguist and comparative philologist best known to semioticians for the posthumously published Cours de linguistique générale ( CLG Course in General Linguistics, 1916). ![]()
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