Émile Benveniste

Émile Benveniste
Born(1902-05-27)27 May 1902
Aleppo, Ottoman Empire
(modern-day Syria)
Died3 October 1976(1976-10-03) (aged 74)
Versailles, France

Émile Benveniste (French: [emil bɛ̃venist]; 27 May 1902 – 3 October 1976) was an Ottoman-born French structural linguist and semiotician. He is best known for his work on Indo-European languages and his critical reformulation of the linguistic paradigm established by Ferdinand de Saussure.

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