单词 | relativizer |
释义 | relativizern. 1. Linguistics. A relative word or form; a conjunction which indicates a relative clause. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > other parts of speech > [noun] > relative or connective referent1635 connective1751 subjunctivea1831 link-word1871 relational1895 relation word1909 relator1933 relativizer1941 1941 B. Haile Learning Navaho I. vii. 129 English ‘in kind, in particular, especially’, appear to approximate the native sense of this relativizer. 1976 Language & Lang. Behavior Abstr. 10 671/2 Conditions of use of the relativizer morphemes. 1987 Eng. World-wide 8 246 Most are similar to English constructions in which the noun relativizer that or who is deleted. 1993 D. Denison Eng. Hist. Syntax 144 Even if the surface relativiser is not a wh- word, a movement analysis is still possible. 2. A person who relativizes something; a person who views something as relative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > relativity > one who or that which makes relative relativizer1962 1962 M. Natanson Lit., Philos., & Social Sci. III. xiv. 170 Penetrator of lies and ideologies,..relativizer and devaluator of immanent thought. 1969 P. L. Berger Rumor of Angels ii. 35 (heading) The perspective of sociology: relativizing the relativizers. 2005 M. Matthen Seeing, doing, & Knowing xi. 254 Colour experience is a signal the system issues when it has determined that something is of a certain colour... This is the issue that the relativizers simply evade. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1941 |
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