slifting

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The preposing of an embedded clause containing reported speech or beliefs. uncountable
    — The rule of Slifting (described in Ross 1973) moves complement clauses and adjoins them to the left of the original embedding structure as a coordinate clause, leaving the rest of the structure as a tag.

词源

Blend of sentence + lifting. Coined by American linguist John R. Ross.
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