单词 | metarule |
释义 | metarulen. Chiefly Linguistics. A higher-order rule or convention determining the application of a set of rules, esp. in a linguistic system. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > [noun] > universal rule in linguistics metarule1945 language universal1948 universal1948 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > serious saying, dictum > [noun] > as rule of conduct, etc. precepta1325 form1484 principle?1533 tenenta1556 maxima1564 maxim1578 primate1596 teneta1620 brocarda1623 formulaa1638 sutra1801 eleventh commandment1857 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). < n.1945 |
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