This is called the combinatory method and it is a fully accepted part of the mainstream linguist's toolkit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

Compound combinatory terms are formed by the application operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combinatory Logic] Reference

Although the analogy with combinatory terms is not very tight, it is useful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combinatory Logic] Reference

A combinatory field of perception arises within a distributed field of shared functions.‚.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Operational Media] Reference

In linguistics and ethnology, a structure is a combinatory game independent of consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The above correspondence can be modified for other implicational logics and combinatory bases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combinatory Logic] Reference

“Semantics for dual and symmetric combinatory calculi,” Journal of Philosophical Logic, 33.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combinatory Logic] Reference

If one follows the combinatory method at all, having two values for one word smells immediately of deception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

It is a hyperreal, produced from a radiating synthesis of combinatory models in a hyperspace without atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

Furthermore, there is a combinatory term, which returns the numeral itself followed by G (n), when applied to a numeral n.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combinatory Logic] Reference

Notice that the numbers in the present representation are terms over a more restricted combinatory base than in the former case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combinatory Logic] Reference

I don't know what the philosophical term for this is constructivism? but I do know what the mathematical term is: combinatory logic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The essential paradigm of cyberspace] Reference

This line of thought gave impulse to the elaboration of syntactical methods within combinatory logic and to the rise of recursion theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic] Reference

Another possibility of rational assembly consists in the use of installation carrier rails in connection with combinatory lighting fittings.    From Wordnik.com.  [10. Mounting of Lighting Installations] Reference

Its combinatory momentum and relentless referencing of the surrounding culture mirror perfectly the associative dynamics of electronic media.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prescience] Reference

The problem of inhabitation does not have a similar general solution, because the problem of the equality of combinatory terms is undecidable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combinatory Logic] Reference

Likewise chimps make tools, but don't make tools to make tools, and they have a fixed set of vocalizations rather than a combinatory language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economics and Evolution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

If a combinatory term M is typable (with simple types) then M strongly normalizes, that is, all reduction sequences of M are finite (i.e., terminate).    From Wordnik.com.  [Combinatory Logic] Reference

Such a rule (without combinatory terms or type assignments) was invented in the 1950s by C.A. Meredith, and it is usually called condensed detachment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combinatory Logic] Reference

A formalization of equational CL may be obtained by extending the standard equational logic with combinatory axioms and rules characterizing application.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combinatory Logic] Reference

Given a combinatory base and a denumerable set of variables, it is decidable by inspection whether a term is or is not in the set of the generated terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combinatory Logic] Reference

N. Self-application MM is admissible and this feature tells us that the objects of combinatory logic cannot be simply interpreted as set-theoretic functions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic] Reference

Curry's analysis of the solutions to the paradox would lead into the realm of the theory of functionality, the history of combinatory logic and proof theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic] Reference

First, a correspondence between formulas that are provable in the implicational fragment of intuitionistic logic and the typable combinatory terms was discovered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combinatory Logic] Reference

Curry had observed in his work on combinatory logic in the late 1950's the analogy between implication elimination in natural deduction and functional application.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chores] Reference

Fitch 1942 proposed a new approach to the problem of finding consistent combinatory logic systems, which were progressively expanded and refined over many years (until 1980).    From Wordnik.com.  [Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic] Reference

He illustrates the shape approach and the concept of combinatory play as creative processes.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

They are part of a post-literate age, the age of mass, participatory, contributory, combinatory media.    From Wordnik.com.  [I cite] Reference

You'll remember: simultaneous recyclo-combinatory hot-waste power re-generation is the wave of the future!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grist - the Latest from Grist] Reference

If the order or the truth-possibilities in a scheme is fixed once and for all by a combinatory rule, then the last column by itself will be an expression of the truth-conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus] Reference

The combinatory base.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combinatory Logic] Reference

The combinatory terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combinatory Logic] Reference

"This combinatory play", he wrote.    From Wordnik.com. Reference