| Lemma | form -class |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Bloomfield (1935) |
| Titolo | Language |
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| Citazioni | [...] a language, by some recognizable phonetic or grammatical feature, groups a number of its forms into 'form-classes' [...] Form-classes, like other linguistic phenomena, can be defined, not in terms of meaning, but only in terms of linguistic (that is, lexical or grammatical) features. All the forms which can fill a given position thereby constitute a 'form-class'. Lexical forms which have any function in common belong to a common 'form-class.' The form-class of a lexical form is determined [...] by the structure and constituents of the form, by the inclusion of a special constituent (a marker), or by the identity of the form itself. |