单词 | nominativus pendens |
释义 | nominativus pendensn. Grammar. A construction in which a sentence is completed as if the subject were other than it is; a subject semantically unconnected with the rest of the construction in which it occurs. ΚΠ 1867 J. J. S. Wharton Law-lexicon (ed. 4) 647/2 Nominativus pendens, a nominative case grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence in which it stands. 1929 C. Mackenzie Gallipoli Mem. viii. 124 And I would have turned a gerund into a participle here and there..and probably there would be a vile nominativus pendens. 1972 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 44 470 The Pyrrhonism implicit in the..personal style of its masters, with its half-finished questions, its broken sentences, its inconclusive syntax, its parentheses..its nominativus pendens. 1991 Jrnl. Theol. Stud. 42 226 It is still a respectable view that all along this was a misreading of John's text, due to the prevalence of the nominativus pendens construction in John's style. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1867 |
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