An exploration of how the mind creates words and, in turn, how words represent intended meanings. An exploration of ho
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English Pages [249] Year 2017
Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Language and the Mind
2 Why the Word?
3 The Word as a Closed Watch
4 Person, Space, and Parts of Speech: Exploring with Guillaume
5 Person, Space, and Parts of Speech in the Noun Phrase
6 Case as a Grammatical Category in Modern English
7 Person in the Substantive and the Verb
8 The Personal Pronouns in English and the Representation of Ordinal Person
Concluding Thoughts
Glossary
Notes
References
Index