| Lemma | transitional type |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | classification (inglese) concept (inglese) conveniently (inglese) formal method (inglese) radical concept (inglese) to cluster (inglese) type (inglese) word (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | Were the typical unanalyzable word of the language truly a pure concept-word [...] instead of being of a strangely transitional type [...], our 'sing' and 'work' [...] and thousands of others would compare with the genuine radical words of numerous other languages. There is something irresistible about a method of classification that starts with two poles, exemplified, say, by Chinese and Latin, clusters what it conveniently can about these poles, and throws everything else into a 'transitional type.' |