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metasequential

metasequential adjective: of or pertaining to a metasequence.

Adjective

metasequential (comparative more metasequential, superlative most metasequential)

  1. Of or pertaining to a metasequence.
    • 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).2002, Hugh Trappes-Lomax,Gibson Ferguson, editors, Language in Language Teacher Education, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 87
    • 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’.2008, Peter Grundy, Doing Pragmatics, third edition, Routeledge, page 168

Forms of metasequential

comparativemore metasequential
superlativemost metasequential

Origin of metasequential

metasequence + -ial

Questions about metasequential

What does metasequential mean?
Metasequential means of or pertaining to a metasequence.
What part of speech is metasequential?
Metasequential is an adjective.

Words near metasequential in the dictionary

  1. metasemantically
  2. metasemantics
  3. metasemiotic
  4. metasequence
  5. metasequences
  6. metasequential
  7. metasequoia
  8. metasequoias
  9. metaseries
  10. metaserver
  11. metaservers

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