"metatheoretical" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "meta- + theoretical",
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      "expansion": "metatheoretical (not comparable)",
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  "hyphenation": [
    "meta‧theo‧ret‧ic‧al"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "metatheoretically"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 122",
          "text": "OK – I can hear you objecting – I can see how this 'no crossing branches'\nconstraint can be made to work mechanically, but what on earth is the point\nof it? Why should it matter whether branches can or cannot cross? A good\nquestion (if you asked it for the right reasons, and not just because you're be-\nginning to get exasperated with Syntax!) Well, the motivation behind this con-\nstraint is essentially as follows: on general metatheoretical grounds (the desire\nto develop a maximally constrained theory which provides a plausible basis\nfor developing a model of language acquisition), we want to restrict the class\nof P-markers which qualify as 'possible natural language sentence-structures'\nas narrowly as possible, and rule out as many 'impossible' structures as we can.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Frieder Lempp, “The Logical Structure of International Trade Theory”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI",
          "text": "In conclusion I will evaluate the gains achieved by formalising ITT from a metatheoretical point of view.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of or pertaining to metatheory, the theory of theories"
      ],
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          "metatheory",
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      "synonyms": [
        {
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        }
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        "not-comparable"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "pertaining to metatheory",
          "word": "métathéorétique"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "pertaining to metatheory",
          "word": "metatheoretisch"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌmɛt.ə.θi.əˈɹɛt.ɪkl̩/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "metatheoretical"
}

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    {
      "word": "metatheoretically"
    }
  ],
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    "meta‧theo‧ret‧ic‧al"
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  "pos": "adj",
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    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 122",
          "text": "OK – I can hear you objecting – I can see how this 'no crossing branches'\nconstraint can be made to work mechanically, but what on earth is the point\nof it? Why should it matter whether branches can or cannot cross? A good\nquestion (if you asked it for the right reasons, and not just because you're be-\nginning to get exasperated with Syntax!) Well, the motivation behind this con-\nstraint is essentially as follows: on general metatheoretical grounds (the desire\nto develop a maximally constrained theory which provides a plausible basis\nfor developing a model of language acquisition), we want to restrict the class\nof P-markers which qualify as 'possible natural language sentence-structures'\nas narrowly as possible, and rule out as many 'impossible' structures as we can.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Frieder Lempp, “The Logical Structure of International Trade Theory”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI",
          "text": "In conclusion I will evaluate the gains achieved by formalising ITT from a metatheoretical point of view.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of or pertaining to metatheory, the theory of theories"
      ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "pertaining to metatheory",
      "word": "métathéorétique"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pertaining to metatheory",
      "word": "metatheoretisch"
    }
  ],
  "word": "metatheoretical"
}