Examples of expletives for emphasis abound in English literature. Here is but one from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”: “There passed a weary time. Each throat Was parched, and glazed each eye.” Coleridge uses the expletive there to emphasize “weary ...
类属Thesaurus 例句Examples 筆順Strokes 字Character 字源Etymology Settings expletive 'ɛksplətɪv Main Part of Speech(名) noun, (形) adjective Related Words (Sorted by part of speech, numbered word sense. May need to scroll content.) ...
In literature this requirement has been contested and reformulated (see, among others, Goodall1987and Mayr and Schmitt2017, and the references therein). I will not deepen here this discussion because it is beyond the aim of this article and I will adopt the standard analysis for coordination. I...
In testing the associations between syntactic variables, the goal of the present work is twofold: theoretically, it aims to engage with the formal literature on subject clitics and related issues; methodologically, it aims to illustrate the benefits of quantitative, data-driven approaches to syntactic...
詞Word 类属Thesaurus 例句Examples 筆順Strokes 字Character 字源Etymology Settingsexpletive 'ɛksplətɪv Main English Definition (名) As a noun Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger. A word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or...
In testing the associations between syntactic variables, the goal of the present work is twofold: theoretically, it aims to engage with the formal literature on subject clitics and related issues; methodologically, it aims to illustrate the benefits of quantitative, data-driven approaches to syntactic...