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distriˈbutional, a.
[f. prec. + -al1.]
Of or pertaining to distribution, esp. to the geographical distribution of animals or plants. Hence distriˈbutionally adv.
1864Huxley Lect. Compar. Anat. i. 2 The student of the geographical distribution of animals..would..dispose the contents of a Zoological Museum in a totally different manner: basing his classification not upon organs, but on distributional assemblages. 1880A. R. Wallace Isl. Life ii. xix. 399 The mode of solving distributional problems. 1933A. M. Woodbury in Ecol. Monogr. III. 168 (heading) Distributional Units. 1936Amer. Speech XI. 171/1 Mr. Zipf has succeeded in defining distributional factors and in demonstrating their significance in language. 1947Int. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics July 171 This procedure allows meanings to be catalogued in terms of distributionally defined units. 1951Z. S. Harris Meth. Struct. Ling. ii. 16 Two utterances or features..distributionally equivalent. 1953C. E. Bazell Ling. Form 83 The view of traditional grammar that he eats and he is eating stand in immediate opposition is fully confirmed by distributional criteria. 1958C. F. Hockett Course Mod. Ling. xix. 174 The..problems below are in what may be called pure distributional analysis. 1963J. Lyons Structural Semantics ii. 11 The lexeme is a formal unit of grammatical analysis, established distributionally. |