The universe of discourse for a descriptive linguistic investigation is a single language or dialect. - Harris (1951), a pag.9 The universe of discourse for each statement in the descriptive analysis is a single whole utterance in the language in question. - Harris (1951), a pag.11 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
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