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单词 metarule
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metarulen.

Brit. /ˈmɛtəruːl/, U.S. /ˈmɛdəˌrul/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: meta- prefix, rule n.1
Etymology: < meta- prefix + rule n.1 (see quot. 1945).
Chiefly Linguistics.
A higher-order rule or convention determining the application of a set of rules, esp. in a linguistic system.
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metarule1945
1945 Ethics 55 123/1 The rule ‘Obey the rules of chess’ is not itself a rule of chess... Our rule is, at best, a meta-rule, as one might call it in a rather loose and dubious analogy to recent developments in logic.
1957 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 319/1 The inference schemas which make up the calculus are never confused with the meta-rules for their reduction to one another.
1966 J. R. Ross in D. A. Reibel & S. A. Schane Mod. Stud. in Eng. (1969) 289 I propose that the following metarule, or convention, be added to the theory of grammar.
1972 W. Labov in R. P. Stockwell & R. K. S. Macaulay Ling. Change & Generative Theory 160 We can then argue for an alpha-switching meta-rule which reverses the direction of the nasality constraint.
1991 D. Crystal Dict. Linguistics & Phonetics (ed. 3) (at cited word) Metarules are particularly important in generalized phase-structure grammar.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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