binaristic
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binaristic
- Exhibiting or advocating binarism.
- Synonym: binarist
- 1994, Philip A. Luelsdorff, The Prague School of Structural and Functional Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 17:
- It should be pointed out that Jakobson upheld his binaristic conception with absolute consistency: in one of his last Prague lectures (1938) he also undertook a thorough binaristic classification of consonant phonemes, dividing their opposition in terms so far unknown: forward-flanged vs backward-flanged […]
- 2004, Mike Hill, After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 34:
- While it may be politically advantageous (and empirically accurate) to reject the racially binaristic thinking of the 1960s civil rights era, it is nevertheless the case that blacks remain the poorest racial minority in the United States per capita, […]