From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   Replaying from the 2018 Linguistic Birthdays thread:   
      
   November 26 - Ferdinand de Saussure (1857)   
   Known for two things, one from the beginning of his career   
   and the other from the end.   
      
   1878 - _Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues   
   indo-européennes_ -- a brilliant internal reconstruction of the PIE   
   root system. Saussure postulated "coéfficients sonantiques" which   
   later proved to have been actual consonants -- the "laryngeal" theory   
   which is now IE orthodoxy.   
      
   1906-1911 - Lectures on general linguistics at the University of Geneva,   
   Compiled after his death by two colleagues into the _Cours de   
   linguistique générale_ (1916). This certainly had an influence on   
   structural linguists both in Europe and America. The   
   synchronic/diachronic and langue/parole distinctions, and the emphasis   
   on contrast, pointed the direction that linguistics would take in the   
   20th century.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_de_Saussure   
      
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