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Lemma  functional unit 
Categoria grammaticale  N 
Lingua  inglese 
Opera  Sapir (1921) 
Sinonimi   
Rinvii  embodiment (inglese)
formal unit (inglese)
radical element (inglese)
sentence (inglese)
speech (inglese)
thought (inglese)
word (inglese)  
Traduzioni   
Citazioni 

Radical [...] element and sentence -these are the primary functional units of speech, the former as an abstracted minimum, the latter as the esthetically satisfying embodiment of a unified thought. The actual formal units of speech, the words, may on occasion identify themselves with either of the two functional units [...]
- Sapir (1921), a pag.32

[...] the major functional unit of speech, the sentence, has, like the word, a psychological as well as a merely logical or abstracted existence.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.35

 
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