slifting

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Etymology

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Blend of sentence +‎ lifting

Noun

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Examples
  • Nick is a great singer, Sara told me.
  • When would it end, she wondered.

slifting (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) The preposing of an embedded clause containing reported speech or beliefs.
    • 1977, Alice Davison, Indirect Speech Acts: a Natural Class or not?[1]:
      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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