DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmamethod of descriptive linguistics
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaHarris (1951)
TitoloMethods in Structural Linguistics
Sinonimi 
Rinviicorpus (inglese)
descriptive linguistics (inglese)
element (inglese)
language (inglese)
method (inglese)
universe of discourse (inglese)
utterance (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

The methods of descriptive linguistics do not reveal or express everything which a speaker can communicate to a hearer in less than a whole utterance, since the universe of discourse is an utterance.
- Harris (1951), Pag. 206, n.18

[…] the methods of descriptive linguistics cannot treat of the degree of productivity of elements, since that is a measure of the difference between our corpus (which may include the whole present language) and some future corpus of the language.
- Harris (1951), Pag. 255