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typologically

typologically

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In a way that compares types, like languages or species
  • adverb
  • /ˌtaɪpəˈlɑːdʒɪkli/
  • Formal
: tipológicamente
  • Isaac's legacy to Jacob is thus the founding of Israel—typologically, the founding of the Franciscan order.

Examples

  • And clicks, again, involve a strange, typologically unusual kind of airflow.

  • This scientist categorized the species typologically, grouping them based on their evolutionary traits.

  • Do these differences mean that the two are not typologically linked; that they are, in fact, essentially different forms of conflict?

    Academic text (1999)
  • On both the third and fourth floors are glass cases, referred to as Window on Collections: Many Hands, Many Voices, that have typologically organized objects from the NMAI collections.

    Academic text (2006)
  • In imitation of Early Christian church decoration, one side of the nave presented narrative scenes from the New Testament, while the other side showed typologically related Old Testament events.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Cyril's continued demonstration that God works in correspondences allows him to construct typologically based arguments to deepen conviction in gospel truths.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Typologically, it presents the same features and proportions of a pictorial prototype largely used by Leonardo's follower in Lombardy.

    Academic text (2007)
  • In this project, we explored the influence of language proficiency, defined as the age of academic immersion in English combined with performance on a test of English grammar, on stress transfer in adult Bengali-English bilingual individuals. English and Bengali are typologically different.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The two languages are typologically related, sharing common grammatical features.

  • In her thesis, she analyzed the typologically distinct structures of various dialects.

Surface Forms

typologically positive

Morphology

typologically = typological (transparent) = typology + ical + ly

Formed by the standard addition of the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'typological', producing the predictable adverbial meaning.

Etymology

The word typologically comes from type ('kind' or 'model') and -ology, the same ending in biology that means 'the study of', forming typology 'the study of types'. So to look at something typologically is to study or compare it by types or groups.