Organized into a structure; structured.

Concerned with or focusing on structure. In later use chiefly Linguistics, Cultural Anthropology, and Literary Theory: of, relating to, or…

= structuralist, adj. (now chiefly in sense 1).

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Saussure or his linguistic theories.

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bloomfield or his theories. Cf. post-Bloomfieldian, adj. n.

of or relating to structural linguistics.

Of or relating to social, mental, or linguistic organization or its analysis. Linguistics, Cultural Anthropology, and Literary Theory. Based on…

Subsequent to the work of the American linguist Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949), spec. designating or relating to American structural linguistics in…