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Whether academic scholars like it or not, the in tense and growing concern with communication will propel the study of language into great prominence during this period. With my best wishes for the success of the department I will explore linguistic activities of the present and of the recent past for the criteria that according to Arnold bring mellow glory: seeing life—for us a segment of life, the language that makes life in human society possible—steadily and seeing it whole. Any scientific concern limits itself to a highly selected topic, as must linguistics.
The Guillaumian tradition in Canadian linguistics. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 26:161 — 70. Himmelfarb, Gertrude. 1981. In defense of the two cultures. American Scholar: 451 — 63. Jespersen, Otto. 1909 —1949. A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles. Vols. 1 — 7. Copenhagen: Munksgaard. Repr. 1949. 1937. Analytic Syntax. Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard. Katz, Jerrold J. 1981. Language and Other Abstract Objects. : Rowman and Littlefield. Koschmieder, Erwin. 1965. Beiträge zur allgemeinen Syntax.
One is Katz's Platonic, not Aristotelian, con ception of linguistics. The second stems from the theories of Guillaume, who may be almost totally unknown in this country but was considered by Meillet to be his outstanding student. This information, as well as some knowledge of Guillaume, I owe to Firth, who was invited as the first European visiting professor at a linguistic institute after World War II, when the most vocal members of the profession were unaware of his the oretical views. According to Guillaume and his school flourishing in Can ada, "definition of language as a set of sentences .