ABSTRACT
This article tracks Saussurean thought in its conception of the phenomenon of analogy as a creative activity distinct from phonetic change. The theme’s complexity is at least partly due to the fact that analogy participates, at the same time, both in speech and language - what includes the speaker in his/her relation with the functioning of language’s mechanism - and to the fact of it being situated at the intersection of the synchronic and diachronic axes. It is at the junction of time that one observes the difference between the analogical creations of adults, which may eventually be adopted by language, and those of the child, which, for Saussure, have no future in language.
Key-words:
analogy; language; speech; language’s mechanism; speaker