单词 | verb-medial |
释义 | > as lemmasverb-medial verb-medial adj. Linguistics designating a language in which the basic or typical word order places the verb in the middle of the clause, or between subject and object; designating word order or a clause of this kind; cf. verb-initial adj., verb-final adj. ΚΠ 1974 Ling. Inq. 5 2 The embedded clause may be either a subject or object complement and thus, in a verb-medial system, may either precede or follow the matrix verb. 1987 E. Rafferty in R. S. Tomlin Coherence & Grounding in Disc. 362 One of the important syntactic changes [in Malay] was the shift from verb-initial to verb-medial clauses. 2015 Frontiers in Psychol. Apr. 465/2 In verb-medial languages like English, verbs become available relatively earlier in the sentence. < as lemmas |
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