Inachèvements

The author lays stress on the fact that gaps, empty places, blanks, and also stops and cuts are to be taken into account in many fields of linguistic research and should give rise to the formulation of theoretical assumptions. She emphasizes that every hypothesis about "emptiness" can scarcely be conceived without a simultaneous and solidary hypothesis about "completeness" and "full forms" (morphological and syntactical microstructures ; textual, pragmatical or cognitive macrostructures - which may have to remain unspecified as to their verbal substance). Some morphological and syntactical phenomena are briefly analysed as well as some particular types of short "texts" (joke, advertisements, telegrams). Conversational stops lead the author to propound a dynamical type of explanation, making use of "real time" and of operations which are tentatively supposed to represent mental processes

Cognition · Emptiness · Epistemology · Joke · Linguistics · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation