Grammar and Linguistics. Of a word, base, root, or language: radical; not derivative; from which another word, base, root, or language develops or…

Philology.

Linguistics. Of language generally, or a language or group of languages specifically: deriving from a number of independent sources; having more…

Linguistics and Philosophy. Of or relating to the view that language operates in an arbitrary and anomalous manner, rather than according to a…

attributive and in other combinations.

contact between two different (usually neighbouring) language communities, esp. resulting in the development of common linguistic features…

Social Sciences. Relating to or involving a process rather than discrete events. Also: designating or relating to a scientific approach to…

Of or relating to neo-linguistics.

attributive in sense 2, as superstrate influence, superstrate language, etc.

= adstratal, adj.

Of, relating to, or forming an adstratum (adstratum, n.).