Albert Sechehaye

Albert Sechehaye ( born July 4, 1870 in Geneva, † July 2, 1946 ) was a Swiss linguist and a member of the saussurschen Geneva School of structuralism. Sechehaye was also involved in the edition of Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale.

Life

Sechehaye was a student at the University of Geneva, where he was taught by Ferdinand de Saussure in 1891. He is an intern at Göttingen (1893-1902), where he wrote a dissertation on the German -speaking French Subjonctif in the past tense (a particular tense of the French language, which is no longer used today). After his internship, he settled in Geneva, where he remained until his death. Only in 1939 he became a professor in the footsteps of Charles Bally.

Student or teacher of Saussure?

Sechehaye is the most famous pupil of Saussure and along with Bally editor of the great work Cours de linguistique générale in the year 1916. Role of students in this classic creation was important because some of the ideas CLG missing in the manuscripts of Saussure and have to whose death has been inserted by the authors to be ( Saussure died 1913).

Sechehaye but a book had been published in 1908, which included some structuralist ideas and a program of synchronic linguistics and phonology. This work Saussure was aware of concomitantly used it after 1909 also in his lectures. Although some ideas developed simultaneously by Sechehaye and Saussure, gained an international reputation as works of the latter, the Sechehaye was more or less hidden for long time involuntarily in the shadow of his teacher and remained unknown. P. Wunderli sees Saussure even as a " student of the Sechehaye ". That is probably an exaggeration, but its role in the design of structuralism can not be neglected.

Linguistic ideas

The work programs méthodes et de la linguistique théorique from 1908 was the first published text of Sechehaye after his German essay and Saussure was dedicated. He argues a linguistics of the Act which precludes the linguistics of the facts of that era. After Sechehaye the linguistics of the law is timeless and universal, while the linguistics of the facts of the history of language, especially the phonetics depends. It divides the regions of a language into "static" and " dynamic " (or "evolution -dependent " ) parts. The "static" parts are the primary components of the language, because they are not affected by the evolution.

Sechehaye represents ideas of the origins and changes of languages ​​, he proposes a quasi- algebraic phonology and deals with the language without proper grammar (such as children ). He recommends a psychological exploration of the phenomenon of language.

His second work Essai sur la structure de logique phrase of 1926 focuses on the syntax and its logical types. In the writings of the years 1920-1940 he clarifies the concept of Saussure and wants a " linguistics of organized language".

Works

  • The subjunctive Imperfecti and its competitors in the normal set of hypothetical structures in French / / Romanesque research, B. XIX, № 2, 1905.
  • Programs méthodes et de la linguistique théorique. Psychologie du langage. Paris: Champion, 1908.
  • Eléments de grammaire historique du français. Genève: Eggimann, 1909.
  • La méthode constructive en syntaxe / / Revue des langues Romance. Montpellier, t. LIX, 1916.
  • Essai sur la structure de la logique phrase / / Collection linguistique publiée par la SLP, XX. Paris: Champion, 1926.
  • L' école de linguistique générale genevoise / / Indo-European studies, B. 44, 1927.
  • Les trois linguistiques saussuriennes / / Vox Romanica, t. V., Zurich, 1940
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