单词 | copulative compound |
释义 | > as lemmascopulative compound a. Serving to couple or connect; spec. in Grammar applied to conjunctions which connect (constructionally) words or clauses which are also connected in sense; opposed to adversative or disjunctive. Also spec. copulative compound. [So already in Martianus Capella and other Latin grammarians.] ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > conjunction > [adjective] > copulative copulativea1450 copulate1631 conjunctive1751 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > compounding > a compound > specific augmentative1616 repetitive1810 bahuvrihi1846 dvandva compound1846 karmadharaya1846 tatpurusha1846 copulative compound1888 symphrase1893 synonym-compound1923 a1450 (a1397) Prol. Old Test. in Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Cambr. Mm.2.15) (1850) xv. 57 A participle of a present tens..mai be resoluid into a verbe of the same tens, and a coniunccioun copulatif. 1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. B.vi Two nominatyue cases..with a coniunccyon copulatyue comynge betwene. 1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (i. 5) i. 55 This copulative And, joyn two evidences of the inferiority of Angels together. 1795 L. Murray Eng. Gram. 79 Conjunctions are principally divided into two sorts, the Copulative and Disjunctive. 1888 H. Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds (new ed.) 75 Such compounds as hásta-krta ‘hand-made’ in Sk,..are..nothing else but fragments of pre-inflectional sentences, as is shown still more clearly in the Sk copulative compounds, such as aho~rātrám ‘a day and night’. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xiv. 235 One can therefore distinguish between copulative compounds (Sanskrit dvandva) and determinative (attributive or subordinative) compounds. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xiv. 235 The Hindu grammarians distinguished among copulative compounds a special sub-group of repetitive (amredita) compounds, with identical members, as in choo-choo, bye-bye, goody-goody. 1951 A. G. Hatcher (title) Modern English word-formation and neo-Latin: a study of the origins of..copulative compounds. < as lemmas |
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