[...] we cannot now make the distinction between form languages and formless languages [...]. Every language can and must express the fundamental syntactic relations even though there is not a single affix to be found in its vocabulary. - Sapir (1921), a pag.124 Aside from the expression of pure relation a language may [...] be 'formless' -formless, that is, in the mechanical and rather superficial sense that it is not encumbered by the use of non-radical elements. - Sapir (1921), a pag.124
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