一、引言1916年索绪尔的学生Bally和Sechehaye根据同学们在他的三次普通语言学课程中所做的课堂笔记以及其他有关资料整理出版了《普通语言学教程》。该书奠定了索绪尔“现代语言学之父”的地位,标志着现代语言学的开端。书中第一编第一章提出语言符号任意性的原则,指出它是“头等重要的”的原则,“支配着整个语言的语言学”。(索绪尔,1980:103)自此,“任意性问题引起了语言 I. INTRODUCTION In 1916, Saussure’s students Bally and Sechehaye compiled and published the ”General Linguistics Course“ based on the class notes and other related materials they had made in his three general linguistics courses. The book lays Saussure the ”father of modern linguistics“ and marks the beginning of modern linguistics. The first chapter of the first part of the book puts forward the principle of arbitrariness of linguistic signs, pointing out that it is the principle of ”first-class importance“ and ”dominating linguistics of the whole language.“ (Saussure, 1980: 103) Since then, ”arbitrariness has caused language