Lemma | grammar |
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Categoria grammaticale | N |
Lingua | inglese |
Sigla | Martinet (1962) |
Titolo | A Functional View of Language |
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Citazioni | As soon as each utterance in any language is conceived of as a succession of minimal signs, with or without overlappings, it becames clear that grammar can be presented as the set of rules restricting the free combinations of all these signs. In no language are all monemes used indiscriminately as function-endowed and function marking. In other words, there is no language without grammar. But once unambiguous function-marking secured, there is no universally valid reason why any moneme, except one that is specifically a function-mark, should be excluded from any function, whether predicative or non-predicative. Still, specialization is very widespread. |