segmentalizationn.
/sɛɡˌmɛntəlʌɪˈzeɪʃən/ Division into segments; spec. in Linguistics, transformation of a grammatical feature into a distinct segment of speech or text. Cf. segment n. 4c.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > [noun] > division into segments
segmentation1851
vertebration1888
segmentalization1964
1964 E. Becker in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 115 There is another kind of confusion..in complex society, which Mills called attention to as a ‘segmentalization of conduct’.
1969 Language 45 718 The auxiliary be is introduced by a segmentalization transformation from features of the following element.
1970 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 16 17 Their [sc. linguistic features'] eventual extraposition (or ‘segmentalization’) is blocked in the case of participles.
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n.1964- stopping-knife
- stopping-material
- stopping-over
- stopping-place
- stopping-point
- stopping-tool
- stoppingground
- stoppinginstrument
- stoppingknife
- stoppingmaterial
- stoppingover
- stoppingplace
- stoppingpoint
- stoppings
- stoppingtool
- stopplank
- stopplate
- stopple
- stopple-cork
- stopple-maker
- stopple-pear
- stopplecork
- stoppled
- stopplemaker
- stopplepear