Title: Lessons on the English Verb: No Expression Without Representation.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press. Kingston and Montreal. London. Ithica.
Publication Date: 2007
Language: English
ISBN 10: 077353198X
ISBN 13: 9780773531987
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Weight: 0.577 kilograms

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While the work of Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960) has had an important influence on French linguistics, his theory is not well known in the English-speaking world. Lessons on the English Verb provides a comprehensive treatment of the English verbal system within a Guillaumean theoretical framework - an approach unprecedented in its systemic scope.

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 in English, the use of 'do' as an auxiliary in questions and negations, and tense and its relation to aspect and mood. Hirtle is the former director of the Fonds Gustave Guillaume, an archive of 60,000 manuscript pages of the theorist's work, housed at Laval University, the world centre for the study of psychomechanics.

About the Author

Walter Hirtle is professeur associ� at l'Universit� Laval, Quebec City, and the author of several books, including Lessons on the English Verb: No Expression without Representation and Language in the Mind: An Introduction to Guillaume's Theory

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