monostratal

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English

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Etymology

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From mono- +‎ stratal.

Adjective

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monostratal (not comparable)

  1. composed of or organized as a single stratum.
    • 1972, David G. Lockwood, Introduction to Stratificational Linguistics, →ISBN, page 232:
      [] a difference of 18 in favor of the monostratal version. To date this model has yet to see any extensive degree of application, but it seems that there []
    • 2009, William D. Lewis with Simin Karimi and Heidi Harley, Time and again: Theoretical perspectives on formal linguistics in honor of D. Terrence Langendoen, →ISBN, page 220:
      First, it is a monostratal model that does not require transduction. Hence it enjoys the full restrictiveness of finite state automata over transducers.