segmentative, a. Linguistics.
(sɛgˈmɛntətɪv)
[f. segment n. + -ative.]
= segmental a. 2 c (see also quot. 1936).
| 1936 Language XII. 127 Punctual and segmentative aspects of verbs in Hopi... The segmentative aspect is formed by final reduplication of this root plus the durative suffix -ta. 1961 Amer. Speech XXXVI. 159 This and other such ‘segmentative’ analyses fail to explain a number of other grammatical facts about nominals. |