单词 | logical subject |
释义 | > as lemmaslogical subject logical subject n. the subject which is implied in a sentence or proposition, or which exists in the deep structure of a sentence. ΚΠ 1898 Mind VII. 34 (heading) On the logical subject of the proposition. 1903 B. Russell Princ. Math. iv. 44 Every term..is a logical subject. 1933 L. S. Stebbing Mod. Introd. Logic (ed. 2) ix. 153 The point that is of importance is to distinguish the grammatical subject of a sentence from the logical subject of the proposition expressed by the sentence. 1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax i. 23 In (8i) [sc. ‘I persuaded a specialist to examine John’] the phrase ‘a specialist’ is the Direct-Object of the Verb Phrase and the logical Subject of the embedded sentence. 1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax iv. 163 It seems that beyond the notions of surface structure..and deep structure (such as ‘logical subject’), there is some still more abstract notion of ‘semantic function’ still unexplained. < as lemmas |
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