The use of any word changes what other words can now be used. —Eugene Gendlin, A Process Model #quote

Every word is…implicitly the system of all the words that could come next, and sometimes also words in further spots down the line. —Eugene Gendlin, A Process Model

…the syntactical structure of language is far more complex than seems warranted by the requirements of meaning. It is also an odd kind of structure difficult to reduce to explicit rules. It is in fact the kind of structure the body has and makes. —Eugene Gendlin, A Process Model

We can feel the need for a certain word, not only from the situation we are in, but also from the words we have used up to the given point. —Eugene Gendlin, A Process Model

The “rules” we explicate are a very late product, and they are never quite successful—if we had only the “rules” as stated we would not speak very well, and we could not do all that we do with language. —Eugene Gendlin, A Process Model