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  <Title>Saussurian analogy: a theoretical account and its application</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In the Cours de linguistique gdn&amp;ul, which dates back t;o 1916, Saussm:e lnetltions a phenoruenon of tremendous iml)ortance in language, analogy: given some series of three words, human beings arc able to (;oii |a fourth one. One can see a reaetualisation of this principle in the ex~unl)te-based nppro;+ch to machine l,r~mslation. AnMogy sec~\[l(|s to h+Lve tiever b('+en Lheorise(\] ill a, ltionolingual frmnework, maldng its hilinguM al&gt;l)li('~vtion questionable. 'l'he purpose of this article is to propose a possible, mathemati('Mly sound cx-I)l~mat\[on, and to show the p;~t,h to comtmtational applications.</Paragraph>
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