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Extensity: The criterium in discovering the limits of noun and verbal phrases

John Gallup
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A concept is often presented without any consideration of its link with the word used to signify its comprehension and its extension; as well as the relationship between the vagueness of comprehension and the width of extension is considered to be invariable. As a linguist, Guillaume talked in 1945 about «le mécanisme corrélatif de la compréhension et de l’extension comme déterminant principal de la structure morphologique du langage». Words correlating comprehension and extension enter into syntactic use in noun and verbal phrases. The actually used extension varies from noun to verb phrase; nevertheless it is either equal to, or smaller than, the entire possible extension that the meaning of a predicative word allows. Based upon Guillaume’s 1958-59 vocabulary, this paper employs the word extensity to signify the actually exploited extension as manifested by words in use. Extensity, explained as something diversely signified by different grammatical types of words, bears the property of being the criterium for establishing the limits of each noun and verbal phrase.

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7e Colloque de psychomécanique du langage
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