sentential

From Latin sententialis.

sentential (not comparable)

1. (linguistics, law, philosophy) Relating to a sentence.

sentential (plural sententials)

1. A portion of a sentence or utterance that could act on its own as a complete sentence.
   • 1985, Dan Isaac Slobin, The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition, page 105:

     Furthermore, children demonstrated that they understood the mapping by elaborating phrasals to sententials, and reducing sententials to phrasals when imitating.

   • 2000, Chad Hansen, A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought, page 349:

     Scientific, moral, and penal laws are formally universal, sentential propositions. Austin noted the requirement that the commands or expression of desire be general. Han Feizi never restricts fa^standards to either sententials or universal sententials. His account is notoriously about ming^name and xing^punishment.