templatically

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templatic +‎ -ally

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templatically (not comparable)

(linguistics) By a templatic process.
- 2010, Nizar Y. Habash, Introduction to Arabic Natural Language Processing, →ISBN, page 52:
  Aspect is indicated only templatically through pattern and vocalism combination.
- 2012, Anna Idström, Elisabeth Piirainen, Endangered Metaphors, →ISBN:
  A narrow focus on form and structure, especially on the stem and prefix combinations in the usually templatically construed Athapaskan verb word and other overly theoretical studies of voice and obviation, has failed to convince several generations of speakers that linguistic analysis has anything to contribute to the documentation and preservation of their threatened languages.
- 2014, Rochelle Lieber, Pavol Stekauer, The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology, →ISBN, page 204:
  In this way, we can analyze the Arabic broken plural as having exponence expressed templatically (as an iambic foot) and also subcategorizing for a templatic sequence (a trochaic foot), which maps onto the iambic foot.
In a manner that conforms to a template.
- 2012, Ivona Kučerová, Ad Neeleman, Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure, →ISBN, page 88:
  The account to be pursued here relies crucially on a syncategorematic interpretive rule applying at the syntax—semantics interface, which is triggered when its templatically defined input requirements are met.
- 2012, Mel Y. Chen, Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, →ISBN, page 146:
  What significance should be applied to the apparent reversal of active human and passive animal? In this representation and performance, “the animal” cannot be so easily filled in by the “dead,” “fake” figure, despite that figure's quadripedal stance: it is templatically “human.”
- 2015, Greg Mills, Why States Recover, →ISBN:
  Naturally, every situation has its nuances and variances, and it is important not to attempt to apply these, exactly templatically again, from one case to another, as Harvard's Matt Andrews has reminded.