| Lemma | connective |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Whitney (1875) |
| Titolo | The Life and Growth of language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | relative pronoun (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | […] the relative pronouns are by far the most important of the connectives by which we bind together separate assertions, making a period out of what would otherwise be a loose aggregation of phrases. We have a verb, ‘be’, bearing the purely formal grammatical office of connecting a subject with its predicate. Such a connective is wanting in many languages, which are obliged simply to set the two elements side by side, leaving their relation to be supplied in the mind. |