slifting

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Definition of slifting

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(uncountable)The preposing of an embedded clause containing reported speech or beliefs.

“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.”

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Blend of sentence + lifting. Coined by American linguist John R. Ross.

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