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[…] Sapir’s original contribution centres around a conceptual analysis of language elements starting from the acceptable view that we should find, in all languages, significants units that do not carry in themselves a mark of their relation to the rest of the utterance, say, 'chair', 'lamp', and other shuch as 'with' or 'for', that are expressly meant to indicate what sort of relation the former keep with each other […] As a third type of element, Sapir poses what he calls ‘derivational concepts’, which formally correspond to affixes. There can be little objection to this, except that, of course, his conceptual approach prevents him from connecting composition and derivation, wich are such closely related phenomena that the analyst is often at a loss to say, in concrete cases, whether a given moneme is an affix or an element of a compound word […]. - Martinet (1962), a pag.94
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