| 释义 |
‖ constructio ad sensum Gram.|kɒnˈstrʌktɪəʊ æd ˈsɛnsəm|
[mod.L., ‘construction according to the sense’.]
Any construction in which the requirements of a grammatical form are overridden by those of a word-meaning: e.g., the construction of a collective noun in the singular with the plural form of a verb because the noun denotes a plurality.
1894B. L. Gildersleeve Lat. Gram. (ed. 3) 148 The natural relation is preferred to the artificial (cōnstrūctiō ad sēnsum, per synesin, according to the sense). 1932A. H. Gardiner Speech & Lang. §44 From such conflict arises the linguistic phenomenon which grammarians call ‘construction according to the sense’ (constructio ad sensum, κατὰ σύνεσιν)... A Latin example is ‘omnis aetas currere obvii’ ‘every age ran to meet them’. 1963F. T. Visser Hist. Syntax I. i. 62 In the latter case we have no grammatical concord, but what is usually called constructio ad sensum. |