单词 | false analogy |
释义 | > as lemmasfalse analogy b. The use of apparent linguistic parallels as a basis for the creation or remodelling of words, inflections, or constructions; spec. (more fully false analogy) a process in which linguistic forms arise or are adapted on the basis of regularities in the forms of parallel examples already in existence, omitting the formative steps through which these models originally arose. ΚΠ 1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) (at cited word) In Matters of Language, we say, new Words are form'd by Analogy. 1844 Pegge's Anecd. Eng. Lang. (ed. 3) 115 He of course left the word ‘fetched’ or ‘fetch’ to its legitimate signification, and accommodated the new verb with a preterit and participle formed by analogy. 1874 R. Morris Hist. Eng. Gram. 95 The th in farther has crept in from false analogy with further. 1879 H. Sweet in Trans. Philol. Soc. 1877–9 391 Paul goes on to protest against the epithet ‘false’ analogy, remarking that it is really ‘correct,’ working as it does with unerring psychological instinct. 1884 N.E.D. at Analogy n. The new inflexion bake, baked, baked (instead of the historical bake, book, baken) is due to analogy with such words as rake, raked, raked, etc. When the formative steps are not only absent, but could not have been present, the process is often called False Analogy. 1967 J. H. Sudd Introd. Behaviour Ants viii. 154 Animals which show these variations in behaviour from one to another can be said to show polyethism—a word formed by analogy with polymorphism. 1992 H. Aigner in C. Blank Lang. & Civilization I. 748 The classical example is, of course, software , which was coined in analogy to the much older hardware. 2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Mar. 25/1 The expression ‘Homintern’, formed by analogy with Comintern, was one which Auden had been wanting to get into print for decades. < as lemmas |
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