• Observational

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /É’bzəˈveɪʃənÉ™l/
    • US IPA: /É‘bzəɹˈveɪʃənÉ™l/

    Origin

    en + -observation + al

    Full definition of observational

    Adjective

    observational

    1. Relating to observation, especially scientific observation.
      • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course Chapter 10   An alternative way of defending the proposal to conflate NP MOVEMENT with XP
    MOVEMENT would be to question the observational adequacy of the claim that NP MOVEMENT only ever has NP constituents as its target.

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