👉 Unideational is a concept in linguistics that refers to the idea of a linguistic system being composed of two or more languages, where each language shares some features with its nearest neighbor. In other words, it's the idea that an unidirectional sentence is one that can be broken down into two or more sentences that are all equivalent but not necessarily grammatically correct. The concept was introduced by Russian linguist Andrey Tataru in his 1987 book "The Unid