Foundations for a science of language - Guillaume, Gustave (J. Benjamins, 1984)
Translation of: Principes de linguistique théorique. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-170) and index
FOUNDATIONS FOR A SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION GUSTAVE GUILLAUME 1883 -- 1960; NOTES FOR THE READER; PRELIMINARY COMMENTS; PART I. THE PROBLEMATICS OF A SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE; CHAPTER 1. LINGUISTICS AND THE OTHER SCIENCES; THE OBJECT OF LINGUISTICS; LOGIC AND LINGUISTICS; CHAPTER 2. THE METHOD OF ANALYSIS; OBSERVATION OF THE ENTITIES OF TONGUE; THE MENTALLY SEEABLE AND THE SAYABLE; INTUITION; WORKING HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY; PROOF IN SCIENCE; CHAPTER 3. GUSTAVE GUILLAUME AND LINGUISTIC TRADITION.
This volume presents, for the first time in English, a representative view of Gustave Guillaume's thought. The texts, drawn mainly from his manuscript notes for lectures at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, were selected as far as possible for their accessibility, as requiring no prior knowledge of his work. The result is a panorama of the far-ranging and often provocative thought of one of the twentieth century's most original linguists