| Lemma | mentalistic statement |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Nida (1949) |
| Titolo | Morphology. The descriptive analysis of words |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | descriptive statement (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | Meanings of recurring complex items are more than the sum total of the parts, for such a combinations has its own history and acquires its own set of associations. [...] configurations and patterns acquire meaning as well as do individual units, and the combinations are not fully explicable in terms of the constituent parts. [...] constantly recurring conventional groupings of morphemes, whether in words, sentences, or discourses, have meanings which can only be understood in terms of their own environments. |