Ferdinand de Saussure (26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist and semiotician, whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiology in the 20th century. He is widely considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics and one of two major founders of semiotics/semiology. Ferdinand de Saussure, né à Genève le 26 novembre 1857 et mort à Vufflens-le-Château le 22 février 1913, est un linguiste suisse. Reconnu comme le précurseur du structuralisme en linguistique, il s’est aussi distingué par ses travaux sur les langues indo-européennes. On estime qu’il a fondé la linguistique moderne et établi les bases de la sémiologie.
Sir William Jones FRS FRSE (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indian languages, which would later be known as Indo-European languages. His father William Jones (1675–1749) was a mathematician from Anglesey in Wales, noted for introducing the use of the symbol π.
Cuneiform script tablet from the Kirkor Minassian collection in the Library of Congress. From Year 6 in the reign from Amar-Suena/Amar-Sin between 2041 and 2040 BCE.
