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Eléments …: A. Martinet or G. Rondeau?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Henri Wittman
Henri Wittman*
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University of Alberta
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In 1961 G. Rondeau published in this journal an article entitled “Les unités linguistiques de base chez A. Martinet,” in which his intention was to discuss, “aussi objectivement que possible,” the basic linguistic units as they appear in A. Martinet’s handbook for beginners in linguistics.

Objectivity? A. Martinet states in his preface that certain novel elements are to be found in chapter IV, the chapter dealing with morphology and syntax. And since G. Rondeau’s article discusses Martinet’s principles of morphology rather than the “unités linguistiques” in general, one would have expected that Rondeau would have aimed his arguments mainly against these forty-nine pages of chapter IV. But it appears that the reviewer has been unwilling to extend his interest into this chapter.

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Book Review
Information
Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , Spring 1963 , pp. 111 - 114
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1963

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References

1 Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 7 (1961), pp. 26-31; hereafter referred to as Rondeau.

2 Martinet, A., Eléments de linguistique générale (Colin, Paris, 1960)Google Scholar; hereafter referred to as ELG.

3 ELG, pp. 97-145.

4 Rondeau, 1.0, lines 28-35.

5 ELG, 2-10, p. 45; bold face type mine.

6 ELG, p. 52ff.

7 Rondeau, 1.1.

8 Rondeau, 1.2.

9 Cf. ELG, p. 20; also cf. p. 117: “On distinguera par ailleurs entre des monèmes grammaticaux (morphèmes) et des monèmes lexicaux (lexèmes).”

10 ELG, 4-13, p. 109.

11 ELG, 4-15, p. 112.

12 Rondeau, 1.2, lines 10-11.

13 ELG, p. 20, line 31; note the plural.

14 ELG, p. 20: “Dans la mesure où la distinction est utile, il vaudrait mieux désigner comme des lexèmes simples ceux des monèmes qui trouvent leur place dans le lexique et non dans la grammaire, et conserver morphème pour désigner ceux qui, comme -ons, apparaissent dans les grammaires.”

15 ELG, pp. 20-21, lines 34-35 and 1-2.

16 Cf. ELG, p. 9, line 10.

17 G. Rondeau, in the diagram of his own “solution différente,” does not acknowledge this.

18 Bold face type mine.

19 Cf. ELG, 4-12, 4-19, and 4-20; A. Martinet’s French example of MONÈMS FONCTIONNEL is à as in il a donné le livre à Jean.

20 ELG, p. 20, lines 24-29; bold face type mine.