What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussures Course in General Linguistics ?

A. There are five phases of linguistic development.

B. Language is inseparable from its historical context.

C. Language can be analyzed as a formal system of elements.

D. Linguistics is too complicated to be distilled to a formula.

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