La concepción de la gramática y el análisis de la oración a partir del Cours de linguistique générale de Ferdinand de Saussure

Abstract

This article is a reflection on whether Ferdinand de Saussure’s Cours de linguistique générale, published a hundred years ago, offers a concept of grammar and if it is currently of use to tackle the problems included in this discipline, especially in the study of the sentence. This work offers an exegesis of the Genevan professor’s vision of grammar and shows that his notion of syntagmatic relationships, associative relationships and the value of linguistic units underlies the sentence analysis carried out by the French linguist Tesnière and, above all, by Daneš, of the Prague School. This implies the recognition of Saussure’s influence on Praguian functionalism, and, more interestingly, the relevance of Saussurean work in research carried out in the field of syntax.