sentential
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin sententialis.
Adjective
editsentential (not comparable)
- (linguistics, law, philosophy) Relating to a sentence.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editrelating to a sentence
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Noun
editsentential (plural sententials)
- A portion of a sentence or utterance that could act on its own as a complete sentence.
- 1985, Dan Isaac Slobin, The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition, page 105:
- Furthermore, children demonstrated that they understood the mapping by elaborating phrasals to sententials, and reducing sententials to phrasals when imitating.
- 2000, Chad Hansen, A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought, page 349:
- Scientific, moral, and penal laws are formally universal, sentential propositions. Austin noted the requirement that the commands or expression of desire be general. Han Feizi never restricts fastandards to either sententials or universal sententials. His account is notoriously about mingname and xingpunishment.