self-embeddedadj.

Brit.

/ˌsɛlfᵻmˈbɛdᵻd/,

/ˌsɛlfɛmˈbɛdᵻd/, U.S.

/ˌsɛlfᵻmˈbɛdəd/,

/ˌsɛlfɛmˈbɛdəd/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: self- prefix, embedded adj.

Etymology: < self- prefix + embedded adj.

1. Of an object: inserted by a person into a part of his or her body. rare before 21st cent.

ΚΠ

1897 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 30 May 3/5 Death was due to asphyxia from the self-embedded pencil in the throat. The jury returned a verdict of ‘Suicide’.

2010 Telegraph-Jrnl. (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 11 Sept. h4 Shiels and his colleagues have detected and treated self-embedded objects in 11 adolescents.

2. Linguistics. Of a syntactic unit: that is contained within another of the same category; (of a sentence, phrase, etc.) characterized by self-embedding. Cf. embedded adj. b, self-embedding n.

ΚΠ

1959 N. Chomsky in Information & Control 2 162 Aj is self-embedded, contrary to assumption.

1962 G. A. Miller in Amer. Psychologist 17 754/2 Even though the self-embedded version is perfectly grammatical, it is far more complicated psychologically—harder to understand and remember—than the right-recursive version.

1982 T. Moore & C. Carling Understanding Lang. ii. 87 In for example the self-embedded sentence: the rabbit the girl the cat ignored pursued dropped a glove the relative clause..is embedded within another relative clause.

2007 Jrnl. Linguistics 43 386 This construction with multiply self-embedded relative clauses is truly open-ended.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	self-embedded
释义	self-embeddedadj. Brit. /ˌsɛlfᵻmˈbɛdᵻd/, /ˌsɛlfɛmˈbɛdᵻd/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfᵻmˈbɛdəd/, /ˌsɛlfɛmˈbɛdəd/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: self- prefix, embedded adj. Etymology: < self- prefix + embedded adj. 1. Of an object: inserted by a person into a part of his or her body. rare before 21st cent. ΚΠ 1897 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 30 May 3/5 Death was due to asphyxia from the self-embedded pencil in the throat. The jury returned a verdict of ‘Suicide’. 2010 Telegraph-Jrnl. (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 11 Sept. h4 Shiels and his colleagues have detected and treated self-embedded objects in 11 adolescents. 2. Linguistics. Of a syntactic unit: that is contained within another of the same category; (of a sentence, phrase, etc.) characterized by self-embedding. Cf. embedded adj. b, self-embedding n. ΚΠ 1959 N. Chomsky in Information & Control 2 162 Aj is self-embedded, contrary to assumption. 1962 G. A. Miller in Amer. Psychologist 17 754/2 Even though the self-embedded version is perfectly grammatical, it is far more complicated psychologically—harder to understand and remember—than the right-recursive version. 1982 T. Moore & C. Carling Understanding Lang. ii. 87 In for example the self-embedded sentence: the rabbit the girl the cat ignored pursued dropped a glove the relative clause..is embedded within another relative clause. 2007 Jrnl. Linguistics 43 386 This construction with multiply self-embedded relative clauses is truly open-ended. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1897
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