单词 | adprep |
释义 | adprepn. Grammar. A word or particle that can function as an adverb or preposition, or combine the two functions simultaneously. ΚΠ 1958 A. A. Hill Introd. Ling. Struct. xiii. 227 A preferable approach..would be to set up a separate cover name... Such a name might be a hyphenated form, adverb-preposition.] 1960 A. K. Taha in Lang. Learning 10 117 The stress-pattern of a transitive verb followed by the adverbial use of the ad-prep contrasts with that of an intransitive verb followed by the prepositional use of the ad-prep. [Note. This term was first used by Professor Archibald A. Hill.] 1971 D. Bolinger Phrasal Verb in Eng. ii. 28 For particles in this double function I adopt A. A. Hill's term adprep. 1992 W. Bright Internat. Encycl. Ling. III. 325/2 Further examples are bequeath and indemnify, which typically occur in the register of law in England, together with ‘adpreps’..like hereto, hereof, and hereinafter. 2004 M. Gorlach Phrasal Constr. & Resultativeness in Eng. ii. 28 The main technique applied to distinguish between particles, prepositions, adverbs (adverbials) and so-called ad-preps is the word order test. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1960 |
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