| Lemma | principle of exhaustive description |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Hjelmslev (1961) |
| Titolo | Prolegomena to a Theory of Language |
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| Citazioni | [...] we can further deduce, especially for use in textual analysis, the following principle, which we call the ‘principle of exhaustive description’: ‘Any analysis (or analysis-complex) in which functives are registered with a given function as basis of analysis shall be so made that it leads self-consistently to the registration of the highest possible number of realized functival categories within the highest possible number of functional categories'. |