Metamorphoses in the Linguistic Relationship Subject-Object
The Ergative Concept
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3896813 |
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| Authors | Robert Triomphe (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 105 |
| Pages | 8-37 |
| Publication date | 1979-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diogenes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0392-1921 • E-ISSN: 1467-7695 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/039219217902710503 |
| OpenAlex | W2076316402 |
| Language | EN |
Let us enter linguistics by the "gateway of the senses." The ambiguity of French itself, in which sens signifies both sensation and meaning, leads us to this Janus-portal, a place for elementary exchanges between the self and the world, where Saint Thomas stationed himself to work out a theory of the encounter between the philosophical subject and object or, rather, using his terms, between the cognoscens (active present participle) and cognitum (neuter nominative/accusative of a passive past participle...) The very heart of all diathesis
Ergative case · Linguistics · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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