The methods of descriptive linguistics do not reveal or express everything which a speaker can communicate to a hearer in less than a whole utterance, since the universe of discourse is an utterance. - Harris (1951), a pag.206, n.18 […] the methods of descriptive linguistics cannot treat of the degree of productivity of elements, since that is a measure of the difference between our corpus (which may include the whole present language) and some future corpus of the language. - Harris (1951), a pag.255
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