| Lemma | process |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Hjelmslev (1961) |
| Titolo | Prolegomena to a Theory of Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | hierarchy (inglese) relation (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | [...] we can define [...] a ‘process’ as a relational hierarchy. [...] we need to distinguish between two sorts of hierarchies: ‘processes’ and ‘systems’. [An] important distinction for linguistic theory is the one between the both-and function, or “conjunction”, and the either-or function, or “disjunction”. This is what is behind the distinction between process and system: in the process, in the text, is present a both-and, a conjunction or coexistence between the functives entering therein; in the system is present an either-or, a disjunction or alternation between the functives entering therein. ‘A priori’ it would seem to be a generally valid thesis that for every ‘process’ there is a corresponding ‘system’, by which the process can be analyzed and described by means of a limited number of premisses. |