[...] an analysis – a deductive progression from class to component and component of component [...].
- Hjelmslev (1961), a pag.21

[...] the analysis must move from the invariants that have the greatest extension conceivable to the invariants that have the least extension conceivable, so that between these two extreme points as many derivative degrees are traversed as possible.
- Hjelmslev (1961), a pag.97

‘Analysis’ we can [...] define formally as description of an object by the uniform dependences of other objects on it and on each other.
- Hjelmslev (1961), a pag.29

The analysis [...] consists actually in registering certain dependences between certain terminals, which we may call, in accordance with established usage, the parts of the text, and which have existence precisely by virtue of these dependences and only by virtue of them.
- Hjelmslev (1961), a pag.28

The definition of analysis presupposes only such terms or concepts as are not defined in the specific definition system of linguistic theory, but which we posit as indefinables: ‘description’, ‘object’, ‘dependence’, ‘uniformity’.
- Hjelmslev (1961), a pag.29

To be exhaustive, the analysis must be so organized that at each stage we analize into the parts that are of greatest extension, 'i'. 'e'., of lowest number, either within the analyzed chain in its totality or within any arbitrary section of it.
- Hjelmslev (1961), a pag.59