The aim of general synchronic linguistics is to set up the fundamental principles of any idiosynchronic system, the constituents of any language-state. Many of the items already explained in Part One belong rather to synchrony; for instance, the general properties of the sign are an integral part of synchrony although they were used to prove the necessity of separating the two linguistics.


p. 101 - Cours de linguistique générale (1916)


The aim of general synchronic linguistics is to set up the fundamental principles of any idiosynchronic system, the constituents of any...

The aim of general synchronic linguistics is to set up the fundamental principles of any idiosynchronic system, the constituents of any...

The aim of general synchronic linguistics is to set up the fundamental principles of any idiosynchronic system, the constituents of any...

The aim of general synchronic linguistics is to set up the fundamental principles of any idiosynchronic system, the constituents of any...