DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmaabstractness
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaDik (1989)
TitoloThe theory of functional grammar. Part I: the structure of the clause
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By “abstractness” I mean the distance (as measured in terms of rules and operations to be applied) between the actual linguistic expressions of a language on the one hand, and the underlying structures in terms of which these expressions are analysed, on the other.
- Dik (1989), Pag. 15