slifting
English
Etymology
Blend of sentence + lifting
Noun
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slifting (uncountable)
- (linguistics) The preposing of an embedded clause containing reported speech or beliefs.
- 1977, Alice Davison, Indirect Speech Acts: a Natural Class or not?:
- The rule of Slifting (described in Ross 1973) moves complement clauses and adjoins them to the left of the original embedding structure as a coordinate clause, leaving the rest of the structure as a tag.