This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The four volumes of Voyages dans les Alpes... published by Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1779-1796) consist of the description of seven trips, ...

Ferdinand de Saussure, who died in 1913 at the age of 55, sowed the seeds of structuralist thought that first took root in linguistics, then effloresced throughout the 20th century in fields as ...

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Two dozen mountains drape themselves diagonally across the middle of Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island in Maine. The peaks start near Bar Harbor in the northeast, tumble down across Jordan ...

John A. Goldsmith is intrigued by the life of a linguistics giant who felt himself to be a failure. “Any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats,” wrote George Orwell. Each ...