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The Mechanics of Language Change through Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (in Arabic)
Auther : Mohamed Ghribi
This paper falls within the framework of modern lexicological studies. It aims at exploring the mechanics of language change through Saussure's Course in General Linguistics.
Our study started by investigating key concepts like synchronicity and diachronicity, langue and parole, and the arbitrariness of the linguistic sign.
Additionally, we attempted to emphasize the relationship between the mechanics of language change and the concept of conventions which govern the language. We also investigated the most important rules of generation that are implicitly stated in the Course and that are related to the phonetic, morphological and semantic change as well as to the possibility of borrowing words from other languages.
This lexicological study of the Course has led us to reach a number of new results which were not emphasized before because most studies were limited to highlighting the structural aspects in the Course.