Wilbur Marshall Urban’s Philosophical Influence on Eugenio Coseriu’s Integral Linguistics
Wilbur Marshall Urban’s Philosophical Influence on Eugenio Coseriu’s Integral Linguistics

Summary/Abstract: In 1939 the American philosopher W.M. Urban published a massive treatise on language philosophy entitled Language and Reality. In the ’50s, during his stay in Uruguay, as a professor of linguistics at the University of Montevideo, Eugenio Coseriu read attentively this work and retained some elements (evocative functions, universe of discourse, elliptical character of language, etc.), taking them over in his integral linguistics. In this article, I aim at identifying these concepts (essential for Coseriu’s linguistic theory), relating them to the original contexts of W.M. Urban’s treatise.

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