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  • Language in the Mind

    An Introduction to Guillaume's Theory

    de Walter Hirtle ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Making Sense out of Meaning

    An Essay in Lexical Semantics

    de Walter Hirtle ...
    In his exploration of word meaning, Walter Hirtle examines an important and controversial topic in lexical semantics: polysemy, the capacity of words to manifest a range of different meanings when employed in different contexts.Building on the work of French linguist Gustave Guillaume, Making Sense out of Meaning is a speaker-oriented study that describes how speakers form word meaning and not, as ... Leer más

    $103.99 USD

  • The Word and Its Ways in English

    Essays on the Parts of Speech and Person

    de Walter Hirtle ...
    Words are the foundation, the building blocks of language. While an obvious and irreplaceable concept in the minds of non-linguists, the entry "word" does not figure in the indexes of some books on linguistics. Why is there this neglect of the word among many contemporary linguists?Inspired by the work of the French linguist Gustave Guillaume and the last in a series of books*, The Word and Its ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Lessons on the English Verb

    No Expression Without Representation

    de Walter Hirtle ...
    Guillaume's theory of psychomechanics views language as systematic and semiotic, with the use of verb forms governed by the meaning we want to express, which is embedded in the unconscious resources of one's native tongue rather than in rules. Through his application of Guillaume's framework Walter Hirtle provides original insights on such topics as the treatment of the progressive and the perfect ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

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    What do speakers of a language have to know, and what can they 'figure out' on the basis of that knowledge, in order for them to use their language successfully? This is the question at the heart of Construction Grammar, an approach to the study of language that views all dimensions of language as equal contributors to shaping linguistic expressions. The trademark characteristic of Construction ... Leer más

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  • A Student's Dictionary of Language and Linguistics

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  • Adverbs and Modality in English

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  • General Linguistics

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  • The Typology of Parts of Speech Systems

    The Markedness of Adjectives

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  • Aitchison's Linguistics

    A practical introduction to contemporary linguistics

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