Geneva School
With Geneva school a sense of structuralism is known in linguistics. It consisted in particular of Ferdinand de Saussure's pupils and successors. The Linguistic Circle, which initially also Cercle F. de Saussure and called CFS since 1941, sought a clarification of terms used by Saussure.
Representatives are, inter alia, his successors in office Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye which Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale published posthumously, and Karcevski and free.
Are highlighted by the Geneva school the following aspects: On the theory of updating Bally speaking (parole ) is seen as a transfer of virtual concepts into real terms by updating. The views of Bally over the Syntagma and the theory of functional transposition ( changing the grammatical function with constant lexical meaning) are emphasized.
A " real development " of structuralism should not have taken place in the Geneva school.