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L’expression des idées de sphère personnelle et de solidarité dans les langues indo-européennes by CHARLES BALLY (1926) The original article by the Geneva School linguist, Charles Bally (1865-1947), represents a seminal work on the grammatical strategies used in the expression of inalienability and the scope of the personal domain, here, with the focus on Indo-European languages.Bally was a student of the Swiss linguist, Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) whose approach to language description and analysis laid the foundation of the Geneva School of Linguistics and European structuralism. This includes the celebrated langue - parole distinction; emphasis on the separation of the synchronic state of language from diachronic phases of development; the view of language as a system including the study of syntagmatic versus paradigmatic relations and the arbitrary nature of the form-meaning nexus (signifiant -signifie). Two other well-known linguists from this School, apart from de Saussure and Bally, were Albert Sechehaye (1870-1946) and Henri Frei. It was Bally and Sechehaye, in fact, who were responsible for editing the book Cours de linguistique generale (Geneva, 1916) on the basis of course notes taken by students of de Saussure's lectures. This was posthumously published in de Saussure's name.Bally takes issue with Levy-Bruhl's claim that French does not code inalienable possession in contrast to Melanesian languages by examining the semantic function of dative case marking in French and contrasting its use with the accusative and genitive cases. One of his main descriptive goals is to consider restrictions on dative case marking in Romance languages from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives, comparing this at various points with German, Russian, Ancient and Modern Greek.