Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries: In Honour of Jacek Fisiak on the Occasion of His Fiftieth Birthday

Authors:

• Dieter Kastovsky,
• Aleksander Szwedek

Abstract

'Speech' is used here in the sense of 'the spoken chain', la chaine parlee. The chain is a concatenation. The 'links' are words. They are the outcome of the first articulation, the free forms. This does not, of course, mean to say that words are like bricks, all simple and essentially the same. When words are brought (or 'strung') together in the spoken chain, all kinds of factors have to be taken into consideration - primarily the dynamic character of the word and its meaning. When a word becomes part of an utterance it is always modified both semantically and syntactically to serve the speaker's or writer's particular intention.