DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmaformal economy
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaSapir (1921)
TitoloLanguage
Sinonimi 
Rinviicase suffix (inglese)
expression (inglese)
functional (inglese)
word order (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

[...] English principle of word order is as potent a means of expression as is the Latin use of case suffixes or of an interrogative particle. There is here no question of functional poverty, but of formal economy.
- Sapir (1921), Pag. 64