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stratificational, a.|strætɪfɪˈkeɪʃənəl|
[f. stratification + -al1.]
1. Linguistics. Of or pertaining to the concept of language as a series of strata or structural layers, esp. stratificational grammar, stratificational linguistics, whereby language is envisaged and analysed in terms of a number of different strata, each with its own rules of formation and related to each other.
1962S. M. Lamb (title) Outline of stratificational grammar. Ibid. 3 The code relating each pair of neighboring strata is a set of stratificational rules. Ibid. 6 Stratificational analysis may be described as a process of emicization followed by the description of the results. 1966Georgetown Univ. Monogr. Ser. Lang. & Linguistics xvii. 87 The picture of the organization of language in terms of four strata can conveniently be called stratificational. 1968P. M. Postal Aspects Phonol. Theory iv. 89 By abandoning any vestige of a natural relation between phonetic and phonemic representations, stratificational phonemics has completely lost contact with these early motivations. 1970Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics XV. 97 Since this hypothesis is independent of the concept of strata, it seems sensible to call the grammar to be developed here a relational network grammar, rather than a stratificational grammar. 1972D. G. Lockwood Introd. Stratificational Linguistics i. 5 Stratificational theory may eventually be able to provide evidence on the relation of the neural networks to the storage of knowledge. 1977P. Strevens New Orientations Teaching of English vi. 79 Very little..stratificational theory..could be thoroughly taught and learned during, say, a two-year training college course.
2. Of or pertaining to social or cultural strata.
1963New Society 3 Oct. 30/3 The evolution of American jazz has been correctly recognised..as a musically expressed protest movement against the existing stratificational order. 1968Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics XIII. 126 The variables studied..showed stratificational patterns clearly identifiable with different social levels of the community.
Hence stratifiˈcationalism, adherence to the theory that language comprises several structural layers; stratifiˈcationalist, one who holds this theory.
1968South Atlantic Bull. Mar. 1/3 Dashing across the empty plains from a distant Danish horizon comes a new band, the troop of Stratificationalism. 1969R. I. McDavid in 2nd & 3rd Lincolnland Conf. on Dialectology (1972) 1 There seems to be diffidence on the part of Lamb's stratificationalists. 1973Amer. Speech 1969 XLIV. 287 Pike or Lamb might charge that James D. McCawley's ‘Prelexical Syntax’ is arcane from the point of view of a tagmemicist or stratificationalist. 1978Language LIV. 170 If it can be said to have a dominant philosophy, it would be stratificationalism. |