Saussure and Chomsky

Saussure and Chomsky, the two major figures in linguistics of the twentieth

century and beyond, have often been compared. The collection of bilingual

English and French papers of this volume offers different perspectives, defended

by two generations of researchers, on what brings together and distinguishes

the Saussurean and Chomskyan theories. The papers all highlight that the two

theories offer points of convergence, as they are interested in the same human

manifestation, while divergence emerges from the fact that they build on two

different premises about the nature of their object of study. The authors do

not always reach similar conclusions but offer thoughts and material that will

definitely help readers form their own opinion.