| 单词 | ghost form |
| 释义 | > as lemmasghost form ghost form n. a word or word form that has come into existence by error rather than established usage, e.g. as a result of a typographical error, the incorrect transcription of a manuscript, an incorrect definition in a dictionary, etc. (cf. ghost word n.). [Probably after ghost word n.] ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > ghost word ghost word1887 ghost name1891 ghost form1894 1894 K. Meyer Hibernica Minora (Anecdota Oxoniensia: Mediaeval & Mod. Ser. VIII) Introd. p. ix The worst offence of which the scribes were guilty..consists in their tagging on a modern ending to an old form... Thus veritable ghost-forms arose, which never had any existence in the living language. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xxvii. 487 Chaucer's phrase in derring do that longeth to a knight ‘in daring to do what is proper for a knight’, was misunderstood by Spenser, who took derring-do to be a compound meaning ‘brave actions’ and succeeded in introducing this ghost-form into our elevated language. 2018 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 138 593 Careful rechecking of the autographs and photographs of some examples also allows Kloekhorst to identify likely ghost forms. < as lemmas |
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