ABSTRACT

An elementary method of analysis of taxonomic structuralism that after the segmentation of the linguistic continuum into basic units (phone, morph), attributes the units arrived at in this way to certain classes of elements with the same characteristics by comparing these units with one another. After a linguistic continuum has been divided into such basic units, these units are co-ordinated. Such paradigms can be found at all levels of description and the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic analysis of languages is based on this.