DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmaanalytic language
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaSapir (1921)
TitoloLanguage
Sinonimi 
Rinviiconcept (inglese)
economically (inglese)
sentence (inglese)
word (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

An analytic language is one that either does not combine concepts into single words at all (Chinese) or does so economically ( English, French)
- Sapir (1921), Pag. 128

In an analytic language the sentence is always of prime importance, the word is of minor interest.
- Sapir (1921), Pag. 128