sentential

adj, noun — 2 senses

adj

Etymology From Latin sententialis.

Human sciences, Law, Linguistics, Philosophy, Sciences Relating to a sentence.

Derived terms: cosentential, extrasentential, intersentential, intrasentential, nonsentential, presentential, prosentential, sentential calculus, sentential connective, sentential formula, sententialism, sententialist, sententiality, sentential logic, sententially, sentential variable, subsentential
Related terms: sententious

noun

Etymology From Latin sententialis.

A portion of a sentence or utterance that could act on its own as a complete sentence.

Near-synonym: clause
Furthermore, children demonstrated that they understood the mapping by elaborating phrasals to sententials, and reducing sententials to phrasals when imitating.1985, Dan Isaac Slobin, The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition, page 105:

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Scientific, moral, and penal laws are formally universal, sentential propositions. Austin noted the requirement that the commands or expression of desire be general. Han Feizi never restricts faˢᵗᵃⁿᵈᵃʳᵈˢ to either sententials or universal sententials. His account is notoriously about mingⁿᵃᵐᵉ and xingᵖᵘⁿⁱˢʰᵐᵉⁿᵗ.2000, Chad Hansen, A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought, page 349:

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