| 释义 |
prepoˈsitionless, a.
[f. preposition n. + -less.]
Lacking or without a preposition.
1956A. H. Smith Eng. Place-Name Elements i. 6 The normal syntax demanded a prepositionless nominative. 1963F. T. Visser Hist. Syntax Eng. Lang. I. iv. 328 To the general replacement..of the prepositionless complements by prepositional complements there are a few exceptions. 1965Language XLI. 133 The subchapter on direct (i.e. prepositionless) verbal government includes..‘The accusative of price, measure and quantity’. 1966Eng. Stud. XLVII. 54 The traditional and vague term direct object..which corresponds to an OE complement in the accusative form and, later on, to a postverbal prepositionless stem-form. |