 | Charles Kay Ogden, Ivor Armstrong Richards - Language and languages - 1927 - 398 pages
...philologists, when he writes, as though dealing with some ultimate characteristic of the universe, " There must be something to talk about and something...about this subject of discourse once it is selected. . . . The subject of discourse is a noun. . . . No language wholly fails to distinguish noun and verb"... | |
 | John Lyons - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1968 - 540 pages
...subject and predicate (cf. 1.2.5, 7-^-4)- Sapir was merely repeating the traditional view when he said: 'There must be something to talk about and something must be said about this subject of discourse. . .The subject of discourse is a noun... No language wholly fails to distinguish noun and verb, though... | |
 | John Lyons - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1977 - 548 pages
...difference between reference and predication. Sapir made the point in a well-known passage, as follows: "There must be something to talk about and something...about this subject of discourse once it is selected . . . The subject of discourse is a noun. As the most common subject of discourse is either a person... | |
 | David Cohen - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1984 - 644 pages
...définition d'E. Sapir: «It is well to remember that speech consists of a séries of propositions. There is something to talk about and something must be said about this subject of discourse once it is selected»57 laquelle rappelle celle de la Gram52 Voir à ce sujet les remarques de PT Geach, Référence... | |
 | Werner Welte - English language - 1985 - 182 pages
...of any thing else, without Substantives." (James Beattie, Theory of Language (London, l788), S. l27) "There must be something to talk about and something must be said about this subject of discourse. (. . .) No language wholly fails to distinguish noun and verb, though in particular cases the nature... | |
 | Randy Allen Harris - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 369 pages
...parallel to Sapir in this work which no one at the time seems to have noticed. In Language, Sapir says "It is well to remember that speech consists of a series of propositions," and that propositions have two essential ingredients, nouns and verbs. As much as he rejects a "logical... | |
 | John Macnamara, Gonzalo E. Reyes - Psychology - 1994 - 379 pages
...interest to the linguist. Each language has its own scheme. Everything depends on the formal demarcation which it recognizes. Yet we must not be too destructive....majority of languages have emphasized it by creating some kind of formal barrier between the two terms of the proposition. The subject of discourse is a noun.... | |
 | Terrence Gordon - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 596 pages
...philologists, when he writes, as though dealing with some ultimate characteristic of the universe, 'There must be something to talk about and something...this subject of discourse once it is selected.... The subject of discourse is a noun — No language wholly fails to distinguish noun and verb', (op.... | |
 | William Croft - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 448 pages
...view is not without precedent; Sapir expressed the same view over three quarters of a century ago: There must be something to talk about and something...importance that the vast majority of languages have emphasi2ed it by creating some sort of formal barrier between the two terms of the proposition. The... | |
 | Clemens Knobloch, Burkhard Schaeder - Grammar, Comparative and general - 2005 - 233 pages
...or another. One example is Sapir's oft quoted passage on the (near) universality of nouns and verbs: It is well to remember that speech consists of a series...distinction is of such fundamental importance that gg Nikolaus P. Himmelmann the vast majority of languages have emphasized it by creating some sort of... | |
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There must be something to talk about and something must be said about this subject of discourse once it is selected. 