[…] The relation of an element to the experience as a whole may be included in the ‘meaning’ of its linguistic equivalent: 'yesterday' corresponds to an element of the experience whose relationship to the rest of the whole is never in doubt. But, beside such perfectly autonomous segments as 'yesterday', we found cases where the ‘meaning’ of the moneme may, in certain contexts, imply a given function, as when Russian 'stol' ‘table’, as an inanimate masculine will tend to be considered a grammatical object, in the absence of any specific indication of that function.
- Martinet (1962), Pag. 58