Language in the mind : an introduction to Guillaume's theory / Walter Hirtle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirtle, W. H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Grammar--Theory, etc.

English language.

Guillaume, Gustave, 1883-1960.

Guillaume, Gustave.

Cognitive grammar.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

x, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2007]

Summary:

The work of Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960) has had an important influence on French linguistics, but his theory of psychomechanics, which views language as systematic and semiotic, is not well known in the English-speaking world. With Language in the Mind, Walter Hirtle provides the first detailed study of Guillaumian linguistics in English.

Hirtle, former director of the Fonds Gustave Guillaume, an archive of 60,000 manuscript pages of the theorist's work housed at Laval University, illustrates Guillaume's general principles with examples drawn from contemporary English grammar and uses comparisons with other approaches, especially cognitive linguistics, to situate Guillaume's distinctive view of language as essentially a mental phenomenon.

Contents:

2 Language and the Ability to Speak 18

3 Words, Words, Words 30

4 Meaning: Representing Experience 51

5 A System for Representing 66

6 The Method of Analysis in Psychosystematics 85

7 The Substantive: A System of Subsystems 106

8 The Substantive and the System of the Parts of Speech 120

9 Some and Any 140

10 The System of the Verb 155

11 Auxiliaries: How do They Help? 174

12 The Proof of the Pudding 189

13 The Noun Phrase 201

14 Concord, Discord, and the Incidence of Verb to Subject 213

15 Thought and Language 225.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-269) and index.

ISBN:

9780773532632

0773532633

OCLC:

123892273