DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmaformal unit
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaSapir (1921)
TitoloLanguage
Sinonimi 
Rinviifunctional unit (inglese)
speech (inglese)
to embody (inglese)
word (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

The actual formal units of speech, the words, may on occasion identify themselves with [...] two functional units; more often they mediate between the two extremes, embodying one or more radical notions and also one or more subsidiary ones.
- Sapir (1921), Pag. 32