单词 | relation-axis |
释义 | > as lemmasrelation-axis relation-axis adj. Linguistics (in the terminology of L. Bloomfield) involving or consisting of a word expressing a relation and another with respect to which the relation holds. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [adjective] relation-axis1933 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. 267 They [sc. English substantive expressions] occur in the position of axis in the relation-axis construction (beside John), with a positional meaning of, say, ‘center from which a relation holds good’. 1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating iv. 57 In the phrases through the house, behind the store, and in the shed, the relationship between the prepositions through, behind, and in and the following immediate constituents (consisting of the noun with preposed determiner the) may be described as ‘relation-axis’. 2007 P. H. Matthews Syntactic Relations iii. 35 Beside me had for Bloomfield a ‘relation-axis’ construction. < as lemmas |
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