| Lemma | syntactic form |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | affix (inglese) formal pattern (inglese) inner (inglese) number (inglese) part of speech (inglese) position in the sentence (inglese) proposition (inglese) pure relational concept (inglese) radical element (inglese) relational concept (inglese) sentence (inglese) to express (inglese) word (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | [...] other relational concepts are either merely parasitic (gender throughout; number in the demonstrative, the adjective, the relative, and the verb) or irrelevant to the essential syntactic form of the sentence (number in the noun; person; tense). 'Pure Relational Concepts' [...]: normally expressed by affixing non-radical elements to radical elements [...] or by their inner modification, by independent words, or by position; serve to relate the concrete elements of the proposition to each other, thus giving it definite syntactic form. [...] the 'part of speech' reflects not so much our intuitive analysis of reality as our ability to compose that reality into a variety of formal patterns. A part of speech outside of the limitations of syntactic form is but a will o' the wisp. |