| Lemma | form language |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | affix (inglese) expression (inglese) language (inglese) radical element (inglese) relation (inglese) syntactic relation (inglese) to express (inglese) vocabulary (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | [...] every language is a form language. Aside from the expression of pure relation a language may, of course, be 'formless' [...] that is, in the mechanical and rather superficial sense that it is not encumbered by the use of non-radical elements. [...] we cannot now make the distinction between form languages and formless languages [...]. Every language can and must express the fundamental syntactic relations even though there is not a single affix to be found in its vocabulary. We conclude that every language is a form language. |