Problems in General Linguistics

according active actually analysis ancient appears assertion become belongs called certain civilization common complete condition connection considered constitute construction defined definition depending derived designates determined discourse distinction elements established example existence expression fact formal French function genitive give given Greek hand historical human important indicate Indo-European instance language Latin linguistic matter meaning middle nature necessary nominal nominal sentence notion noun object observed opposition organized particular passive perfect performative Persian person phoneme Plautus position possession possible prae precisely predicate present principle problem pronoun question reality reason recognize reference relation relationship relative remains respect result Saussure seems sense sentence signified simple situation society speaking specific structure symbols taken tense thing thought tion transitive translation units utterance verb verbal verbal form whole