| Lemma | functional unit |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | embodiment (inglese) formal unit (inglese) radical element (inglese) sentence (inglese) speech (inglese) thought (inglese) word (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | Radical [...] element and sentence -these are the primary functional units of speech, the former as an abstracted minimum, the latter as the esthetically satisfying embodiment of a unified thought. The actual formal units of speech, the words, may on occasion identify themselves with either of the two functional units [...] [...] the major functional unit of speech, the sentence, has, like the word, a psychological as well as a merely logical or abstracted existence. |