Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
Ferdinand de SaussureAbout author
- Author's profession: Educator
- Nationality: swiss
- Born: November 26, 1857
- Died: February 22, 1913
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