Linguistic analysis of two cases of emissive aphasia

Two cases of emissive aphasia are examined along purely linguistic lines. This analysis shows the first case to be a speech-disturbance akin to the syndrome described by Duboiset al. (1964). It also somewhat resembles the type of aphasia Jakobson (1956) has termed “contiguity disorder”. In the second case, the aphasia proves to be but one manifestation of a general intellectual deterioration.