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subsentential

subsentential adjective: less than a sentence.

Adjective

subsentential (not comparable)

  1. Less than a sentence.
    • This looks like a candidate for a subsentential logical form and there may be various other cases of embedded fragments which have subsentential logical forms (appositional noun phrases, for instance).2002, Robyn Carston, Thoughts and utterances: the pragmatics of explicit communication, page 152
    • Quine makes this claim at two levels: the level of whole sentences, and the level of subsentential expressions. At the level of subsentential expressions the claim is known as the thesis of the inscrutability of reference.2007, Michael Rowland Morris, An introduction to the philosophy of language, page 220

Origin of subsentential

From sub- + sentential.

Questions about subsentential

What does subsentential mean?
Subsentential means less than a sentence.
What part of speech is subsentential?
Subsentential is an adjective.

Words near subsentential in the dictionary

  1. subsensitive
  2. subsensitivity
  3. subsensory
  4. subsentence
  5. subsentences
  6. subsentential
  7. subsentient
  8. subsept
  9. subsepta
  10. subseptate
  11. subseptic

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