Borerian

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to the linguist Hagit Borer.

    "We have developed an analysis of one example of cross-linguistic variation which follows that Borerian line of thinking, but at the same time, due to a universal base of underlying syntactico-semantic categories, may still provide an explanatory limit on the bounds of variation."

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"We have developed an analysis of one example of cross-linguistic variation which follows that Borerian line of thinking, but at the same time, due to a universal base of underlying syntactico-semantic categories, may still provide an explanatory limit on the bounds of variation."

Etymology

From Borer + -ian.

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