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metasequential en · ADJ

Etymology

metasequence + -ial

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to a metasequence.
   • Moreover, this supporting account contains the metalinguistic, or more properly metasequential, term reason, which encodes the speaker’s awareness of the conversational method that he is employing (i.e. reasons are realized in the form of accounts). 2002, Hugh Trappes-Lomax,Gibson Ferguson, editors, Language in Language Teacher Education, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 87:
   • Higher-order-iterations of conditionals require higher-order metasequential constructions. 2024 August 19, Wikipedia contributors, “Conditional event algebra”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:
   • Her turn ends with an invitation to the Doctor to formulate, ‘so’, which he appears to anticipate. Being unwilling to formulate, in his next turn he confirms that he understood (metasequential right), adding a supplementary inquiry, ‘the whole lot’, which Nicole confirms with a minimal ‘yeah’. 2008, Peter Grundy, Doing Pragmatics, third edition, Routeledge, page 168:

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