metasequential

English

Etymology

metasequence +‎ -ial

Adjective

metasequential (comparative more metasequential, superlative most metasequential)

1. Of or pertaining to a metasequence.
   • 2002, Hugh Trappes-Lomax,Gibson Ferguson, editors, Language in Language Teacher Education, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 87:

     Moreover, this supporting account contains the metalinguistic, or more properly metasequential, term reason, which encodes the speaker’s awareness of the conversational method that he is employing (i.e. reasons are realized in the form of accounts).

   • 2008, Peter Grundy, Doing Pragmatics, third edition, Routeledge, page 168:

     Her turn ends with an invitation to the Doctor to formulate, ‘so’, which he appears to anticipate. Being unwilling to formulate, in his next turn he confirms that he understood (metasequential right), adding a supplementary inquiry, ‘the whole lot’, which Nicole confirms with a minimal ‘yeah’.

   • 2024 August 19, Wikipedia contributors, “Conditional event algebra”, in English Wikipedia‎^[1], Wikimedia Foundation:

     Higher-order-iterations of conditionals require higher-order metasequential constructions.