| 释义 |
non-reˈflexive, a.
[non- 3.]
1. Gram. Not reflexive (reflexive a. 5).
1949O. Jespersen Mod. Eng. Gram. VII. 170 As a reflexive use of the self-forms we must also reckon the predicative in ‘he is quite himself again’ = ‘in a normal condition’, though NED takes it to be the emphatic, i.e. non-reflexive use. 1965D. Ward Russ. Lang. Today v. 139 As a general rule, such nouns are formed from imperfect non-reflexive verbs. 1968J. Lyons Introd. Theoretical Linguistics 361 Many languages..have a set of reflexive pronouns distinguished for person and number..; others..draw a distinction between reflexive and non-reflexive objects only in the third person.
2. Philos. Of a relation which may, but need not, hold between a thing and itself. Cf. irreflexive a., reflexive a. 3.
1947H. Reichenbach Elem. Symbolic Logic iii. 120 The nonreflexive functions comprise the irreflexive and the mesoreflexive functions. 1954I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic v. 143 Relations which are neither reflexive nor irreflexive are said to be non-reflexive. The phrases: ‘loves’, ‘hates’, and ‘criticizes’ designate non-reflexive relations. 1955A. N. Prior Formal Logic iii. iii. 274 Not everybody is a shaver of himself, but some are. These [relations] are sometimes called ‘non-reflexive’. 1964E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. vii. 155 If there is at least one term in its domain that does not bear the relation to itself, then it is classed as nonreflexive... Admiring is presumably non-reflexive; i.e, there are people who admire someone and do not admire themselves. 1965Hughes & Londey Elem. of Formal Logic xxxix. 274 Every dyadic relation must be either reflexive or irreflexive or non-reflexive. |