Walter Hirtle
Biographic Data
| ID | 738101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walter Hirtle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walter |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirtle |
| SIGNATURE | HIRTLE W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Laval |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
DO auxiliary - A meaningful support and operator
The simple form again: An analysis of direction-giving and related uses
Syntax: Autonomous or Meaning Motivated
on ne peut rien savoir de scientifiquement valable concernant les actes d’expression si l’on n’a fait préalablement l’étude des actes de représentation dont ils émanent. (Gustave Guillaume 1954:28) Perhaps the most remarkable trait of human language is the way it adapts spontaneously to the particular experience the speaker wants to express. Thanks to our mother tongue, the linguistic means are available to render more or less faithfully whatever…
Meaning and referent: For a Linguistic Approach
A recent volume on semantics (Eco et al. 1988) groups a variety of papers under the title Meaning and Mental Representations. This volume presents different points of view concerning the problem of meaning, a cross-section of contemporary thought, in the Anglo-American world for the most part. An introductory essay sketches in broad outline the current scene, describing two approaches to linguistic meaning which appear to be quite incompatible, l…
To Be in the Progressive: A New Use
Visser (1973:1968) gives a long list of verbs “more or less incompatible” with the progressive that have this in common: in their general sense they do not express a real activity . . . In order to account for their use in the expanded form one ought to go in quest of the various senses and sub-senses that are tinged with a notion — however slight — of activity. (1973:1969)
Some and any: Exploring the System
Linguistics and the dimensions of language
The Singular Plurality of Verb Discord in English
Number discord between subject and verb raises a theoretical problem for which linguists have, as yet, provided no satisfactory answer. Since facts of both morphology and syntax are involved, it is a problem which brings into focus the relation between what Guillaumians call tongue and discourse. First I shall outline the problem by giving a number of examples, and then try to suggest one avenue which might be explored in the hopes of finding a s…
Langage et psychomecanique du langage: Etudes dediees a Roch Valin
MAY, CAN and the expression of permission
Any system is necessarily both one , by virtue of its governing principle, and several internally, by virtue of the positions it contains. No system can contain just one element. By nature and by definition a system is binary: it must contain at least two elements to be a system at all. (Translated from Guillaume 1973:175) In any linguistic system—and this is the basic condition for systematizing—there is ... a before and an after within which an…
Ed Adjectives like ‘verandahed’ and ‘blue-eyed’
The problem that provides the subject of the present study has, curiously enough, received little more than a passing glance from most grammarians. Many of them mention that adjectives can be formed from substantives by means of a dental suffix, but none seem to be intrigued by the four aspects of the problem to be examined here. The fact that these aspects of the problem have received little or no attention up to now would in itself justify this…
The English present subjunctive
An examination of the comments by linguists on the present subjunctive in current English reveals a surprising degree of unanimity of opinion concerning it. Most grammarians consider its extinction either imminent or accomplished. Thus, for example, Whitehall states that “the subjunctive is gradually dying out of the language.” Close considers that “apart from a few archaic remains it has disappeared from English altogether.” And Kruisinga says f…
DO auxiliary - A meaningful support and operator
The simple form again: An analysis of direction-giving and related uses
Linguistics and the dimensions of language
Ed Adjectives like ‘verandahed’ and ‘blue-eyed’
The problem that provides the subject of the present study has, curiously enough, received little more than a passing glance from most grammarians. Many of them mention that adjectives can be formed from substantives by means of a dental suffix, but none seem to be intrigued by the four aspects of the problem to be examined here. The fact that these aspects of the problem have received little or no attention up to now would in itself justify this…
Meaning and referent: For a Linguistic Approach
A recent volume on semantics (Eco et al. 1988) groups a variety of papers under the title Meaning and Mental Representations. This volume presents different points of view concerning the problem of meaning, a cross-section of contemporary thought, in the Anglo-American world for the most part. An introductory essay sketches in broad outline the current scene, describing two approaches to linguistic meaning which appear to be quite incompatible, l…
Some and any: Exploring the System
The English present subjunctive
An examination of the comments by linguists on the present subjunctive in current English reveals a surprising degree of unanimity of opinion concerning it. Most grammarians consider its extinction either imminent or accomplished. Thus, for example, Whitehall states that “the subjunctive is gradually dying out of the language.” Close considers that “apart from a few archaic remains it has disappeared from English altogether.” And Kruisinga says f…
Ed Adjectives like ‘verandahed’ and ‘blue-eyed’
The problem that provides the subject of the present study has, curiously enough, received little more than a passing glance from most grammarians. Many of them mention that adjectives can be formed from substantives by means of a dental suffix, but none seem to be intrigued by the four aspects of the problem to be examined here. The fact that these aspects of the problem have received little or no attention up to now would in itself justify this…
MAY, CAN and the expression of permission
Any system is necessarily both one , by virtue of its governing principle, and several internally, by virtue of the positions it contains. No system can contain just one element. By nature and by definition a system is binary: it must contain at least two elements to be a system at all. (Translated from Guillaume 1973:175) In any linguistic system—and this is the basic condition for systematizing—there is ... a before and an after within which an…
The Singular Plurality of Verb Discord in English
Number discord between subject and verb raises a theoretical problem for which linguists have, as yet, provided no satisfactory answer. Since facts of both morphology and syntax are involved, it is a problem which brings into focus the relation between what Guillaumians call tongue and discourse. First I shall outline the problem by giving a number of examples, and then try to suggest one avenue which might be explored in the hopes of finding a s…
Langage et psychomecanique du langage: Etudes dediees a Roch Valin
Linguistics and the dimensions of language
Some and any: Exploring the System
To Be in the Progressive: A New Use
Visser (1973:1968) gives a long list of verbs “more or less incompatible” with the progressive that have this in common: in their general sense they do not express a real activity . . . In order to account for their use in the expanded form one ought to go in quest of the various senses and sub-senses that are tinged with a notion — however slight — of activity. (1973:1969)
Syntax: Autonomous or Meaning Motivated
on ne peut rien savoir de scientifiquement valable concernant les actes d’expression si l’on n’a fait préalablement l’étude des actes de représentation dont ils émanent. (Gustave Guillaume 1954:28) Perhaps the most remarkable trait of human language is the way it adapts spontaneously to the particular experience the speaker wants to express. Thanks to our mother tongue, the linguistic means are available to render more or less faithfully whatever…
Meaning and referent: For a Linguistic Approach
A recent volume on semantics (Eco et al. 1988) groups a variety of papers under the title Meaning and Mental Representations. This volume presents different points of view concerning the problem of meaning, a cross-section of contemporary thought, in the Anglo-American world for the most part. An introductory essay sketches in broad outline the current scene, describing two approaches to linguistic meaning which appear to be quite incompatible, l…
The simple form again: An analysis of direction-giving and related uses
DO auxiliary - A meaningful support and operator
Linguistics (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Meaning (existential (4 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (3 works)