He was a Danish Linguist whose ideas formed the basis of the Copenhagen School of linguistics. Born into an academic family he studied comparative linguistics in Copenhagen, Prague and Paris.
In 1931 he founded founded the Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague. Together with Hans Jørgen Uldall he developed a structural theory of language which he called glossematics, which developed the semiotic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure. Glossematics as a theory of language is characterized by a high degree of formalism, it is interested only in describing the formal characteristics of language, and a high degree of logical rigour.
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