G. Guillaume relu par Maurice Toussaint: filiation revendiquée, réévaluation critique et exploitation originale
G. Guillaume Revisited by Maurice Toussaint: Claiming Filiation while Critically Reevaluating and Originally Exploiting the Theory

Summary/Abstract: For a long time Maurice Toussaint’s (analytic then epistemic) neurosemantics met with little response from the followers of Guillaume’s psychomecanics. Fortunately, things seem to be changing, and at least his parallel commitment against the principle of the arbitrary nature of the sign arouses some interest in the new generation. Admittedly, this original theory has developed along lines that were little explored when it was first laid out. Moreover its corticocerebral materialism together with its oscillatory perspective have much to puzzle a structuralist linguist. Yet there is no denying that it derives straight from Gustave Guillaume’s tenets: if Maurice Toussaint did criticize and reject some of them, if he confronted or combined them with other propositions to come up with personal interpretations or extrapolations, globally he never stopped paying him high tribute. He should therefore deservedly be considered as one of the best scientific supports and one of the most efficient champions of Guillaume’s cause.

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