DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmaradical element
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaSapir (1921)
TitoloLanguage
Sinonimiroot (inglese)
stem (inglese) 
Rinviigrammatical element (inglese)
speech (inglese)
word (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

If we symbolize such a term as 'sing' by the algebraic formula 'A' [...] The element 'A' may be either a complete and independet word ( 'sing' ) or the fundamental substance, the so-called root or stem or 'radical element' ( 'sing -' ) of a word.
- Sapir (1921), Pag. 25

[...] while the radical element may, on occasion, be identical with the word, it does not follow that it may always, or even customarily, be used as a word.
- Sapir (1921), Pag. 26