Saussureanadj.n.

1937 J. Orr tr. I. Iordan Introd. Romance Linguistics iii. 194 His [sc. Gilliéron's] linguistic is descriptive, or, in the Saussurian terminology, ‘synchronic’.

1939 P. Christophersen Articles 16 A word has thus two aspects: verbal image and meaning (in the well-known Saussurean terms: signifiant and signifié).

1943 Language 19 55 In its essence it is Saussurean, but differs in certain respects also from the practices of the major European groups that follow the teachings of Saussure.

1952 Word 8 264 Eleven papers are devoted to general problems and methodology, among them..the Saussurean opposition between synchrony and diachrony.

1968 J. Lyons Introd. Theoret. Linguistics ix. 429 This fact is expressed in Saussurean terms by saying that each language imposes a specific form on the a priori undifferentiated substance of the content-plane.

1971 D. Crystal Linguistics 162 This leads to the correlative Saussurean concept of parole, the actual, concrete act of speaking.

1975 Lass & Anderson Old Eng. Phonol. iv. i. 117 Without adhering to the Saussurean dichotomy one can still realize that diachronic evidence does not crucially determine choices for synchronic ordering.

1977 Language 53 398 As a Saussurean, K views with suspicion any suggestion ‘that linguistics might not yet have reached the status of an autonomous science’.

1954 Word 10 391 Orthodox Saussureanism of the Geneva school.

1977 Language 53 391 The history of Saussureanism—perhaps one of the most challenging topics that a historian of linguistics could undertake.