Of the functives that contract implication that (or those) whose manifestation is identical with that of the syncretism is (are) said to ‘be implied by’ that (or those) other functive(s), and the latter is (are) said to 'imply' that (or those) functive(s) whose manifestation is identical with that of the syncretism. - Hjelmslev (1961), a pag.90