| Lemma | major function |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Weinreich (1963) |
| Titolo | "On the Semantic Structure of Language" |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | predicate (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | It is a further near-universal property of discourse that in sentences expressing more than one function, whether homogenous [...] or heterogeneous [...], one of the functions is represented as the 'major function'. The usual grammatical correlate of the major function is the subject-predicate construction [...]. |