DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmadescriptive analysis
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaNida (1948)
TitoloThe identification of morphemes
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It is the observable structural patterns of a particular language, not its general phonological tendencies or the mere statistics of occurrence, that constitute the chief criterion for any given analysis.
- Nida (1948), Pag. 426

[...] the basic assumption that we adopt as a premise for all descriptive analysis: that there are no actual synonyms.
- Nida (1948), Pag. 431