subgrouping
Speech parts
1. subgrouping - Noun
2. subgrouping - Verb
Meaning
subgrouping
present participle of subgroup
subgrouping (plural subgroupings)
A subgroup
Examples
Greenberg's subgrouping of these languages has not been accepted by the few specialists who have worked on the classification of these languages.
Aside from automatic translation, computational and quantitative methods are also used in historical linguistics in reconstruction of earlier forms of modern languages and subgrouping modern languages into language families.
Her method of "functional subgrouping" introduces a method of organizing group communication so it is less likely to react counterproductively to differences.
However, this classification scheme has failed to gain acceptance from other specialists in the Algonquian languages.sfn Instead, the commonly accepted subgrouping scheme is that proposed by Ives Goddard (1994).