| 单词 | thing-word |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthing-word thing-word n. [compare German Dingwort noun (1829 or earlier)] Grammar (rare) a noun; (sometimes) spec. (a) a concrete noun; (b) (in O. Jespersen's terminology) a count noun. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [noun] > concrete noun concrete?1499 thing-worda1853 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [noun] > countable noun thing-worda1853 countable1914 count-noun1952 a1853 T. K. Arnold Henry's Eng. Gram. (1853) 5 The names of all things are called substantives; that is, things that subsist, or have a substance. A substantive, therefore, is a ‘thing-word’. 1877 H. Sweet in Trans. Philol. Soc. 1875–6 487 ‘Snow’..is both a thing-word and a noun, ‘white’ is a quality-word and an adjective, ‘whiteness’ a quality-word and a noun. 1914 O. Jespersen Mod. Eng. Gram. II. v. 115 Another difference in the adjuncts of mass-words and thing-words: the former have what, the latter what a in exclamatory quasi-questions. 1937 A. Smeaton tr. R. Carnap Logical Syntax Lang. v. lxxvii. 297 ‘Thing’ is a universal word (provided that the designation of things constitutes a genus)... ‘Moon’ is a thing-word..; ‘five’ is not a thing-word, but a number-word. 2001 Diacritics 31 51 The impulse needs to be understood in itself and independently of its instrument, the thing-word. < as lemmas |
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