Had Ferdinand de Saussure spoken Wolof or Basaa…, the discipline of linguistics would have fared differently

Ngué Um, Emmanuel

doi:10.1075/lcs.00022.ngu

In:Language, Culture and Society
Vol. 2:1 (2020) ► pp.107–115

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Had Ferdinand de Saussure spoken Wolof or Basaa…, the discipline of linguistics would have fared differently

Emmanuel Ngué Um | University of Yaoundé

Published online: 3 July 2020

https://doi.org/10.1075/lcs.00022.ngu

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