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Author Hirtle, W. H., author.

Title Language in the mind : an introduction to Guillaume's theory / Walter Hirtle
Published Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 273 pages) : illustrations
Contents Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Language and the Ability to Speak -- Words, Words, Words -- Meaning: Representing Experience -- A System for Representing -- The Method of Analysis in Psychosystematics -- The Substantive: A System of Subsystems -- The Substantive and the System of the Parts of Speech -- Some and Any -- The System of the Verb -- Auxiliaries: How Do They Help? -- The Proof of the Pudding -- The Noun Phrase -- Concord, Discord, and the Incidence of Verb to Subject -- Thought and Language -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Guillaume sees the word as the link between language as potential and as actual discourse. Meaning is both the representation of the speaker's momentary experience and the determining factor in the the word's use in discourse. Walter Hirtle 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269) and index
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Subject Guillaume, Gustave, 1883-1960.
SUBJECT Guillaume, Gustave, 1883-1960 fast
Subject Linguistics.
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
English language -- Grammar -- Theory, etc.
Cognitive grammar.
Linguistics
linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Cognitive grammar
English language -- Grammar -- Theory, etc.
Language and languages -- Philosophy
Linguistics
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773560413
0773560416