单词 | empty word |
释义 | > as lemmasempty word empty word n. Grammar a word which has no lexical meaning but serves a grammatical function; a function word; opposed to full word n. and adj. at full adj., n.2, and adv. Compounds 1b.Chiefly used with reference to Chinese grammar. [Originally after Chinese xūzì (see empty character n.); in later use after xūcí ( < xū + cí word, term), which is now the preferred term.] ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > [noun] > function word particle1533 parcel1571 syncategorem1655 agency1778 empty word1854 symbolic1871 form-word1875 structural word1884 particule1889 pheme1906 structure word1925 function word1927 operator1938 logical word1940 keneme1950 rheme1953 functor1958 1854 F. M. Müller Let. to Chevalier Bunsen on Classif. Turanian Langs. ii. §6 131 The Chinese themselves distinguish between full words (shi tsé) and empty words (hiu tse). These empty words..have no independent meaning of their own, but determine and modify the meaning of other words. 1892 H. Sweet New Eng. Gram. I. 22. §58 When a form-word is entirely devoid of meaning, we may call it an empty word, as opposed to full words such as earth and round. 1968 P. Kratochvíl Chinese Lang. Today iv. 117 Traditional Chinese linguists considered practically all minimal forms beside what would be called nouns as ‘empty words’. 1998 T'oung Pao 84 245 It functions as no more than a connector or a ‘pro-verb’ and is not much different from an ‘empty’ word. < as lemmas |
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