| Lemma | minimal difference |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Harris (1951) |
| Titolo | Methods in Structural Linguistics |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | corpus (inglese) descriptive linguistics (inglese) difference (inglese) distinction (inglese) element (inglese) utterance (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | The over-all purpose of work in descriptive linguistics is to obtain a compact one-one representation of the stock of utterances in the corpus. Since the representation of an utterance or its parts is based on a comparison of utterances, it is really a representation of distinctions. It is this representation of differences which gives us discrete combinatorial elements (each representing a minimal difference). |