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taxonomic, a.
[f. taxonomy + -ic.]
a. Pertaining or relating to taxonomy, classificatory.
1852Dana Crust. i. 10 We deem it of so little taxonomic importance. 1894Newton Dict. Birds 820 The taxonomic position of the Palamedeidæ..has been much debated.
b. spec. in Linguistics, involving or concerned with the identification and classification of the terms into which languages are analysed; esp. as taxonomic linguistics (the dominant methodology of the 1940s and 1950s), taxonomic phonetics, etc.
1962N. Chomsky in Internat. Preprints Papers 9th Internat. Congr. of Linguists 556 In the case of perception of language,..the step-by-step analytic models of taxonomic linguistics are not in the least convincing. 1964― in Proc. 9th Internat. Congr. Linguists 951 Structural linguistics marks a departure from a more traditional point of view... Let us coin the term ‘taxonomic phonemics’ to refer to this body of doctrine, thus emphasizing its striking reliance..on procedures of segmentation and classification. 1968P. M. Postal Aspects Phonol. Theory p. x, I shall refer..to the dominant conception of phonological structure as ‘autonomous phonology’ or ‘autonomous phonemics’, considering this terminology preferable to that of ‘taxonomic phonemics’ which has been used in the recent past. 1973Archivum Linguisticum IV. 117 He goes on to claim a tacit dependence of transformational grammar on the findings of taxonomic analysis. 1976Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 128 FBG present excellent discussions of taxonomic structural linguistics, how it is done, what it discovered about language (observing that many of the facts about language structure that taxonomic grammarians set out to capture are real), and the psycholinguistics of taxonomic grammar.
Hence taxonomical a.; taxonomically adv.
1875C. C. Blake Zool. Pref., A sub-class which vindicates the value of its *taxonomical character by its numerical superiority. 1880Huxley in Times 25 Dec. 4/1 The palæontological facts which have come to light..have completely broken down existing taxonomical conceptions.
1899Nature 14 Sept. 460/1 To successfully handle *taxonomically groups so dissimilarly ordained as the Bony Fishes and Echinoderms. |