[Fr. soh-syr] 
| Fer⋅di⋅nand de [Fr. fer-dee-nahn duh] , 1857–1913, Swiss linguist. |
| Saus·sure (sō-sŏŏr', -sür') Swiss linguist. The founder of structural linguistics, he declared that there is only an arbitrary relationship between a linguistic sign and that which it signifies. The posthumously published collection of his lectures, Course in General Linguistics (1916), is a seminal work of modern linguistics. |
diˈnɑ̃ də