语言是一个开放的复杂的动态系统。王希杰先生在语言事实的基础上,提出了“潜词”“潜义”“潜句”“潜辞格”等语言理论,丰富了语言学,对语言研究将会起到积极的推动作用。潜语言理论是王先生娴熟地运用演绎法的结果,是他在80年代后期最主要的成果之一。本文认为,王希杰先生所提出的语言理论是立足于语言事实本身的,具有较强的概括性和预测能力。 Language is an open and complex dynamic system. Based on linguistic facts, Mr. Wang Xijie put forward linguistic theories such as “latent words”, “latent sentences”, “latent sentences” and “latent figures”, enriched linguistics and played an active role in promoting linguistic research. The potential language theory is the result of Wang’s skillful use of the deductive method and one of his most prominent achievements in the late 1980s. This paper argues that the language theory proposed by Mr. Wang Xijie is based on linguistic fact itself and has strong generalization and predictive ability.