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Glossematics is a modern linguistic theory which, to a greater degree than any other, is influenced by the Cours de Linguistique Générale of the Genevan professor of linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913).

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Siertsema, B. (1955). Introduction. In: A Study of Glossematics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6671-5_1

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