- Language XXXVII (1961), 194, Cf. (ibid.) “the opposite views they took up on the place of meaning in linguistics….”
- J. R. Firth, “Modes of Meaning”, Essays and Studies (1951), in Papers in Linguistics, 1934–1951 (London, 1957), p. 190. In the present article quotations from Firth are taken from Papers in Linguistics wherever possible.
- L. Bloomfield, Language (London, 1935, reprint of 1961), p. 140.
- Quoted by C. C. Fries in “Meaning and Linguistic Analysis,” Language XXX (1954), 57–68; in Readings in Applied English Linguistics, ed. H. B. Allen (New York, 1958), p. 104.
- No-one could accuse Bloomfield of an entirely negative attitude to meaning after reading Fries's two articles (that cited in the previous note, and “The Bloomfield ‘School’,” Trends in European and American Linguistics, 1930–1960, ed. Christine Mohrmann and others [Antwerp, 1961], pp. 196–224, especially 212–217).
- Some of the material which follows in the present paper was touched on in my” ‘Meaning’ and the Theory of the Morpheme,” Lingua XII (1963), 165–176.
- Language, p. 139; cf. 22–27, 74–75.
- Language, p. 93; see Fries “The Bloomfield ‘School’,” p. 214 for further quotations.
- “A Set of Postulates for Phonemic Analysis,” Language XXIV (1948), 6.
- Fries, op. cit., p. 215.
- J. B. Carroll, The Study of Language (Cambridge, Mass., 1953), p. 31.
- J. R. Firth, “General Linguistics and Descriptive Grammar,” Transactions of the Philological Society (1951); in Papers in Linguistics, p. 225.
- B. Bloch and G. L. Trager, Outline of Linguistic Analysis (Baltimore, 1942), pp. 6, 53, 54.
- Z. S. Harris, Methods in Structural Linguistics (Chicago, 1951), pp. 187, 365 note 6; cf. pp. 7 note 4, 186–195, 363.
- A. A. Hill, Introduction to Linguistic Structures (New York, 1958), pp. 409–410, and 3.
- Hill, op. cit., p. 90. Also note pp. 94 and 409–417. For material similar to that of the quotations above, see E. A. Nida, Morphology (2nd ed., Ann Arbor, 1949), passim and especially Ch. 6; G. L. Trager and H. L. Smith, Outline of English Structure (Washington, 1951), pp. 54, 81 ff.; H. A. Gleason, Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics (2nd ed.; New York, 1961), pp. 54, 77, 79, 92.
- The Structure of English, pp. 293–296; cf. 34, 56: “Meaning and Linguistic Analysis,” in Readings in Applied English Linguistics, especially pp. 105–113.
- “Meaning and Linguistic Analysis,” pp. 110–111, 112. Note the terminology of the first part of this quotation (”modes,” “layers”) and the references to Firth in the notes accompanying the text.
- The Structure of English, pp. 7–8.
- James Sledd, review of The Structure of English, Language XXXI (1955), 335–345.
- Op. cit., pp. 194–196.
- “Personality and Language in Society”, Papers in Linguistics, p. 183.
- “A Synopsis of Linguistic Theory, 1930–1955,” p. 8 in Studies in Linguistic Analysis (Special Volume of the Philological Society, Oxford, 1957, pp. 1–32); cf. Papers in Linguistics, pp. 15, 19, 32, 190, 192, 220.
- The notion of levels is not worked out thoroughly by Firth; for a more rigorous treatment, by admission dependent on Firth, see M. A. K. Halliday, “Categories of the Theory of Grammar,” Word XVII (1961), 241–292, especially 243–245. A recent discussion of form and meaning in Firthian terms is contained in Halliday, Mcintosh and Strevens, The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching (London, 1964), esp. pp. 21, 37–40, 153–4.
- “Synopsis,” p. 23.
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