selectional
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About choosing people or things
- adjective
- /sɪˈlɛkʃənl/
:
selectivo
- In this experiment, the selectional process ensured that only the most qualified participants were included.
Examples
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The committee used strict selectional criteria to choose the best candidates for the job.
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Her selectional preferences made it clear which books she would recommend to her students.
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Rather, "selectional thinking" guides the generation of psychological hypotheses, and it is these hypotheses that are being tested.
Academic text (1990)
How Selective
Surface Forms
selectional positive
Morphology
Etymology
Selectional comes from the base select ('to choose') plus the endings -ion and -al ('related to'). So selectional describes things about how people or things are chosen, which is why we talk about selectional standards or processes.