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THE ESSENTIAL GUILLAUME: A CRITICAL EXPLICATION

Gustave Guillaume was born in 1883 and died in 1960. He was a student of Antoine Meillet, and his view of language shows the influence of both Saussure and Meillet, but is also marked by a rugged independence and a marked originality of thought. That Guillaume's linguistic views are but little known, and even less appreciated, can be traced to two basic causes. Firstly, and perhaps more significantly, his principal mode of influence was the classroom, and not the printing press. Secondly, he was a mentalist and strongly critical of the anti-mentalist point of view: "En roclamant le droit ä Thypothose et en proclamant la nocessite de depasser les donnoes brutes de Fobservation, Guillaume a heurte les habitudes de bien des linguistes, en son temps. Incomprohension aujourd'hui incomprohensible, mais qui fut." Stefanini 1967: 75.