FOUNDATIONS FOR A SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION GUSTAVE GUILLAUME 1883 - 1960 -- NOTES FOR THE READER -- PRELIMINARY COMMENTS -- PART I. THE PROBLEMATICS OF A SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE -- CHAPTER 1. LINGUISTICS AND THE OTHER SCIENCES -- THE OBJECT OF LINGUISTICS -- LOGIC AND LINGUISTICS -- CHAPTER 2. THE METHOD OF ANALYSIS -- OBSERVATION OF THE ENTITIES OF TONGUE -- THE MENTALLY SEEABLE AND THE SAYABLE -- INTUITION -- WORKING HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY -- PROOF IN SCIENCE -- CHAPTER 3. GUSTAVE GUILLAUME AND LINGUISTIC TRADITION -- GENERAL GRAMMAR -- A MISUSE OF LOGIC -- AN ERROR OF HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS -- TONGUE AND ITS HISTORY -- A SHORTCOMING IN THE SAUSSUREAN ANALYSIS -- COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS AND PSYCHO-SYSTEMATICS -- CHAPTER 4. THEORY AND THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE -- THEORY: UNDERSTANDING IN THE SUPERLATIVE -- TONGUE IS IN ITSELF A THEORY -- THE PRESUPPOSITION OF ORDER IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SCIENCE -- PART II. FROM PROBLEMATICS TO SYSTEMATICS IN THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE -- THE SIMPLICITY POSTULATE -- PSYCHO-SYSTEMATICS: DEFINITION AND METHOD -- PSYCHO-SYSTEMATICS AND PSYCHO-MECHANICS -- PARTICULARIZING AND GENERALIZING IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF LANGUAGE -- THE LAW OF NON-RECURRENCE -- SYSTEM AND DIACHRONY OF SYSTEMS -- THE CONTINUING CAUSATION OF LANGUAGE: PROPOSALS AND TRANSFORMS -- PROBLEMS OF REPRESENTATION AND STATES OF TONGUE -- LANGUAGE AND SILENT THOUGHT -- PART III. SIGN AND SIGNIFICATE -- THE PHYSICAL AND THE MENTAL: A FUNDAMENTAL DUALITY -- SIGNIFYING AND THE MENTAL/PHYSICAL RELATION -- INTERIORIZING AND EXTERIORIZING IN LANGUAGE -- THE SUITABILITY OF THE SIGN TO THE SIGNIFICATE -- EXPRESSIVE SUFFICIENCY: THE LAW OF PSYCHO-SEMIOLOGY -- RECIPROCAL ACCOMMODATION BETWEEN THE MENTAL AND THE PHYSICAL -- NEGATIVE MORPHOLOGY (ARTICLE ZERO).

PART IV. THE ACT OF LANGUAGE -- THE NATURE OF THE ACT OF LANGUAGE -- THE ACT OF LANGUAGE: ITS OPERATIONAL CHRONOLOGY -- ESTABLISHED IN LANGUAGE OR IMPROVISED? EXPRESSION VS. EXPRESSIVENESS -- THE PLACE OF THE SENTENCE IN LANGUAGE -- UNITS OF POTENTIALITY AND UNITS OF ACTUALITY: THE WORD AND THE SENTENCE -- THE PRECEDENCE OF TONGUE: ITS ANTICIPATORY NATURE -- FROM WHAT IS THINKABLE TO WHAT IS THOUGHT: TONGUE AND DISCOURSE -- REPRESENTATION AND EXPRESSION: UNIVERSALITY OF THE RELATION -- TONGUE AS CONDITIONER -- PART V. LANGUAGE AND SYSTEM -- CHAPTER 1. THE SYSTEMIC NATURE OF LANGUAGE -- A LAW INHERENT IN ANY SYSTEM -- A DIFFICULTY REGARDING THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE SYSTEMS -- TONGUE AS A SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS -- THE ESTABLISHED AND NON-ESTABLISHED ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE -- SYSTEM AND NON-SYSTEM IN TONGUE -- THE HISTORICAL FILIATION AND RENEWAL OF SYSTEMS -- CHAPTER 2. THE SYSTEMEC NATURE OF THE WORD -- DISCOVERING THE SYSTEM: AN APPROPRIATE ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUE -- THE GENESIS OF THE WORD: MATTER AND FORM -- OPERATIONS OF WORD CONSTRUCTION: DISCRIMINATION AND CATEGORIZATION -- THE MECHANISM OF WORD CONSTRUCTION IN THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES -- MORPHOLOGY AND THE GENESIS OF THE WORD -- A STRUCTURAL DEVICE: THE RADICAL BINARY TENSOR -- THE ROLE OF INCIDENCE IN DETERMINING WORD CATEGORIES -- INTERNAL INCIDENCE AND EXTERNAL INCIDENCE -- SYSTEM OF THE WORD AND SYSTEM OF THE ARTICLE -- POTENTIALITY AND REALITY IN LANGUAGE -- PART VI. THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE -- LANGUAGE AND OPERATIONALISM -- THE OPERATIONAL SUBSTRATUM OF EVERY LANGUAGE SYSTEM -- LANGUAGE AND WHAT IS SAYABLE: FROM THE UNSAYABLE TO THE SAYABLE -- STRUCTURAL STATES OF LANGUAGE AND THE HISTORY OF HUMAN UNDERSTANDING -- THE HUMANIZING FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE: LINGUISTICS AND ANTHROPOLOGY -- LANGUAGE AS A REDUCER OF MENTAL TURBULENCE -- THE SPECIFICITY OF HUMAN LUCIDITY.

THE RECIPROCAL CAUSATION OF THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE -- THE COMMON MIND AND THE SCHOLARLY MIND -- EPILOGUE -- LANGUAGE AND SCIENTIFIC CURIOSITY -- LANGUAGE, MATHEMATICS AND LINGUISTICS -- LANGUAGE, MAN AND THE UNIVERSE -- LANGUAGE AND COMMON THOUGHT -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS OF GUSTAVE GUILLAUME -- INDEX.