| Lemma | inner form |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | expression (inglese) formal (inglese) formless language (inglese) grammatical element (inglese) outer form (inglese) radical element (inglese) relation (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | [...] the grammatical element [...] may consist of some modification of the inner form of the stem [...] Aside from the expression of pure relation a language may [...] be 'formless' [...] The attempt has sometimes been made to formulate a distinction on the basis of 'inner form.' Chinese [...] has no formal elements pure and simple, no 'outer form,' but it evidences a keen sense of relations, of the difference between subject and object, attribute and predicate [...] it has an 'inner form' in the same sense in which Latin possesses it, though it is outwardly 'formless' where Latin is outwardly 'formal'. |