| Lemma | functional category |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Hjelmslev (1961) |
| Titolo | Prolegomena to a Theory of Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | analysis (inglese) category (inglese) function (inglese) functive (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | Let us imagine that selection is chosen as the basis of analysis. Then in the first operation the given chain is analyzed into first-degree selection-units; the category that is obtained from all these units we call the ‘funcional category’. By this, then, is understood the category of the functives that are registered in a single analysis with a given function taken as the basis of analysis. Within such a functional category four kinds of functives may be imagined:
1. functives that can appear only as selected;
2. functives that can appear only has selecting;
3. functives that can appear both as selected and as selecting;
4. functives that can appear neither as selected nor as selecting ('i'. 'e'., functives that contract only solidarities and/or combinations, or that do not contract relation at all). |