| 释义 |
exponence rare.|ɛkˈspəʊnəns|
[f. next: see -ence.]
The function of an exponent of something. So also exˈponency.
1880Daily Tel. 19 Feb., For the vocal exponence of [sacred music]..she is exceptionally gifted. 1880Harper's Mag. LX. 908 Streets and avenues, squares and rows, enough to require the exponency of a good-sized directory.
Restrict rare to sense in Dict. and add: b. The realization of a linguistic category or feature in speech or writing; also, the relation between categories, etc. and their exponents. (Also exponency n.)
1960Jrnl. Canad. Linguistic Assoc. VI. ii. 133 Firth's theory of exponency is treated in much greater detail in my paper mentioned in the summary. 1966J. Ellis in C. E. Bazell et al. In Memory of J. R. Firth 80 Formal items also have a contextual meaning... We do not speak in the other direction of a phonological meaning of formal items (but rather of the phonological exponence of formal distinctions). 1979Trans. Philol. Soc. 69 Typically, though, for an inflecting language, the exponence of particular properties by particular formatives is linked to relevant contrast within particular paradigms. 1986Word 1985 XXXVI. 140 The relation between function and set is exponence. |