单词 | postmodifier |
释义 | postmodifiern. Linguistics. A word, phrase, etc., that is placed after another and qualifies or limits its sense. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > modifier or qualifier > specific dangling modifier1909 premodifier1952 postmodifier1954 1954 College Eng. 16 39/1 In distinguishing between ‘conventional grammar’ and what we may choose to call ‘structural analysis’..makes necessary a fresh set of names for parts of sentences—during the first class meeting perhaps ‘this area’, ‘this word’, ‘premodifier’, ‘postmodifier’, supplemented with gestures. 1965 Language 41 205 Deictic + head + post-modifier. 1985 R. Quirk et al. Comprehensive Gram. Eng. Lang. 65 Premodifiers precede the head, and postmodifiers follow it. 1996 Internat. Rev. Appl. Ling. 34 6 Also segmented was child from the NNS [= non-native speaker] children, which was used as a premodifier of psychology in contrast to the NNS use of infant, infantile as postmodifier. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1954 |
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