| 释义 |
adnex Gram.|ˈædnɛks|
[f. ad- + nexus.]
In Jespersen's terminology, a word (usu. a verb) or group of words of secondary importance in a ‘nexus’ or predicative relation.
1924[see adjunct B. 5 b]. 1924O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. vii. 100 Finite forms of verbs can only stand as secondary words (adnexes), never either as primaries or as tertiaries. 1933― Syst. Gram. 17 The dog runs, nexus: runs..is adnex to dog. 1933A. R. Radcliffe-Brown Andaman Islanders (rev. ed.) 504 In nexus the primary precedes the adnex, or in other words the nominative precedes the verb. |