DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmasubjunctive
Categoria grammaticaleAG
Linguainglese
SiglaNida (1949)
TitoloMorphology. The descriptive analysis of words
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One should carefully avoid the following types of statements: [...] 3. Subjective In place of the statements: a. We add '-l' to the root. b. You can see the suffix in the past-tense forms. Use: a. '-l' is added to the root. b. The suffix occurs in the past-tense forms or The past-tense forms contain the suffix. In so far as possible, the linguist should be completely objective about descriptive statements. [...]
- Nida (1949), Pag. 241