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Lemma  temporal function 
Categoria grammaticale  N 
Lingua  inglese 
Opera  Sapir (1921) 
Sinonimi  time as function (inglese)  
Rinvii  affix (inglese)
formal (inglese)
to express (inglese)  
Traduzioni   
Citazioni 

We generally think of time as a function that is appropriately expressed in a purely formal manner. [...] As a matter of fact the English future ('I shall go') is not expressed by affixing [...] it may be expressed by the present, as in 'to-morrow' I leave this place, where the temporal function is inherent in the independent adverb.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.69

 
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