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Linguistics has always been inductive, as Hjelmslev calls it, by which he means that it has always applied a method passing from something particular to something general in its formation of concepts: from the individual sounds to the phonemes (classes of sounds), from the individual phonemes to the categories of phonemes, from the individual meanings to the general or basic meanings, and from these to the categories of meanings. It was a progression from segment to class, not from class to segment, a synthetic, not an analytic movement.
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L. Hjelmslev, La Catégorie des Cas, Acta Jutlandica VII, 1935. ( Cas).
Nevertheless the work still induced Trager to the following remark in his review of it: “For Hjelmslev, linguistic categories are epistemological categories, and linguistic ‘concepts’ are of the same kind as logical concepts” (Language 17, 1941, p. 172–174).
L. Hjelmslev: La Structure Morphologique (Types de Système). Rapports V Congrès Intern. des Linguistes, 1939, p. 66–93. (Struct. Morph.).
Guevara is one of those who, not knowing of the setting of later glossematic theory, is puzzled by Hjelmslev’s insistence on deduction, as appears i.a. on p. 32 of Los “Principios...” etc., where he quotes La Structure Morphologique (1939).
In a later article Hjelmslev speaks of “une procédure analytique (dite aussi déductive, d’un terme qui s’est montré prêter à l’equivoque)” (La stratification du langage, Word 10, No 2–3, 1954, p. 164).
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Siertsema, B. (1965). Induction and Deduction. In: A Study of Glossematics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8796-1_3
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