minimal unit

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• NASH 1968 142 (minimal meaningful unit)

  NASH, Rose. (1968) Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press. 

• LYONS 1971 170

  LYONS, John. (1971) Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: University Press. 

• Ducrot & Todorov 1979[trans.] 200 (minimal unit of meaning)

  DUCROT, Oswald and TODOROV, Tzvetan. (1979 [trans.]) Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language. Trans. by Catherine Porter. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 

• AKMAJIAN etal. 1984 57

  AKMAJIAN, Adrian, DEMERS, Richard A., & HARNISH, Robert M. (1984) Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication, 2nd Ed. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

• BEAUGRANDE & DRESSLER 1981 20

  BEAUGRANDE, Robert de & DRESSLER, Wolfgang. (1981) Introduction to Text Linguistics. London: Longman.

• RUWET 1973[trans.] 10

  RUWET, Nicholas. (1973 [trans.]) An Introduction to Generative Grammar. Trans. by Norval S.H. Smith. Amsterdam : North-Holland Publishing Co.

• QUIRK etal. 1985 43 (minimum unit of form and meaning)

  QUIRK, Randolph, GREENBAUM, Sidney, LEECH, Geoffrey, & SVARTNIK, Jan. (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.

• MARTINET 1962 22 (minimal sign)

  MARTINET, André. (1962) A Functional View of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• GREIMAS 1983[trans.] 116

  GREIMAS, A.J. (1983 [trans.]) Structural Semantics: An Attempt at a Method. Trans. by Daniele McDowell, Ronald Schleifer & Alan Velie.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 

• HARTMANN & STORK 1972 145 (minimum distinctive unit)

  HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.

• WEINREICH 1980 308 (smallest distinctive unit)

  WEINREICH, Uriel. (1980) On Semantics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.