extrapolational

comparative more extrapolational · superlative most extrapolational

1. Relating to or involving extrapolation.

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   [Phonemes] were at some point even considered to be the basic building blocks of language, somewhat comparable to the atoms of physics. Nowhere else can this extrapolational strategy better be observed than in the American branch of structural linguistics in its development of morphemics and the introduction by Bloomfield of the concept of the morpheme […]

   1992 Summer, E. M. Uhlenbeck, “General Linguistics and the Study of Morphological Processes”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 31, number 1, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 1–2