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nounmetacondition (plural metaconditions)
plural metaconditions
- A condition dependent on other conditions.
The phenomenon cannot be described, she pointed out, by talking about individual changes in transformational rules or whatnot: Rather, it must be described as a metacondition on the way the grammar of a language as a whole will change.
2003, Raymond Hickey, Motives for Language Change, page 104
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metacondition. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metacondition
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