"unattestability" meaning in All languages combined

See unattestability on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} unattestability (uncountable)
  1. (rare) The property of being unattestable. Tags: rare, uncountable
    Sense id: en-unattestability-en-noun-wswbXpu9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1976, Gloria Sheintuch, “On the Gradation of Grammatical Relations”, in Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, volume 6, number 1, Urbana, Ill.: Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, page 187:",
          "text": "Thus the gradation of the direct object provides an explanation for the unattestability of [ +derived / -specific ] direct objects in the language.",
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          "text": "Moreover, there is no reason for excluding them from L other than their size-determined and creature-dependent unattestability which would not equally justify excluding any sentence at all from L.[…]Thus no linguist can ignore transfinite sentences on the grounds of their unattestability without equally ignoring almost all finite sentences.",
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          "ref": "1976, Gloria Sheintuch, “On the Gradation of Grammatical Relations”, in Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, volume 6, number 1, Urbana, Ill.: Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, page 187:",
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