templatically

Adverb

templatically (not comparable)

1. By a templatic process.
   • Aspect is indicated only templatically through pattern and vocalism combination.2010, Nizar Y. Habash, Introduction to Arabic Natural Language Processing, →ISBN, page 52
   • 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...2012, Anna Idström, Elisabeth Piirainen, Endangered Metaphors, →ISBN
2. In a manner that conforms to a template.
   • 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, Ivona Kučerová, Ad Neeleman, Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure, →ISBN, page 88
   • 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.”2012, Mel Y. Chen, Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, →ISBN, page 146