| 释义 |
extraposable, a. Gram.|ɛkstrəˈpəʊzəb(ə)l|
[f. next + -able.]
That may be extraposed. Also extraposaˈbility n.
1968Language XLIV. 755 One of the more remarkable syntactic developments between Old English and Modern English is this constraint on the extraposability of non-restrictive clauses. 1978Studies in Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 109 A striking regularity emerges, since all and only categories that share a certain property are extraposable from any phrase. |