Reference

Gustave Guillaume (16 December 1883 - 3 February 1960) [1] ... Guillaume set out to apply the comparative method to the uses of the articles in Modern French, in order to describe their mental system located in the preconscious mind of the speaker rather than in pre-historical time. He was to pursue his research into the system of articles

"Language in the Mind" is the first detailed study of Guillaumian linguistics in English and uses comparisons with other approaches, especially cognitive linguistics, to situate Guillaume's distinctive view of language as essentially a mental phenomenon. The work of Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960) has had an important influence on French linguistics. But his theory of psychomechanics, which

The overwhelming presence of Ferdinand De Saussure, and the enormous influence he has been exerting on generations of linguists have partly concealed the originality and complexity of Guillaume, who could well have played a paramount role in the European linguistic culture. Guillaume's approach to the problems of the linguistics is more