| 释义 |
slifting, n. Linguistics.|ˈslɪftɪŋ|
[f. sentence n. + lifting vbl. n.]
In transformational grammar, a rule or transformation which promotes material from an embedded sentence following a cognitive verb to a main sentence.
1973J. R. Ross in M. Gross et al. Formal Anal. Nat. Lang. 134 Such structures..are converted by a rule which I will refer to as Slifting (= sentence lifting). 1976Language LII. 396 Slifting, a rule which fronts the complements of verbs of saying and thinking.., has created the appropriate environment. 1977Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 1976 XXI. 153 Sentences like the following are basically the same in meaning..(1) I believe Ralph came. (2) Ralph came, I believe. These have been described..as related by a transformational rule of Sentence-Lifting or Complement Preposing (to be abbreviated here as ‘Slifting’). 1980Studies in Lang. IV. 121 Possibly the path of derivation involves Extraposition and Slifting..followed by a rule which can..convert a parenthetical clause to a surface adverb. |