metalinguistic

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Treating words as words, rather than interacting with their meaning. not-comparable
    — Mary is still one of the most popular girl's names. This represents a metalinguistic use of Mary: the case where we cite a linguistic expression in order to say something about it qua linguistic expression.
  2. Pertaining to metalinguistics. not-comparable

词汇关系

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *meth₂?
Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ)
Ancient Greek μετᾰ- (metă-)lbor.
English meta-
English linguistic
English metalinguistic
From meta- + linguistic.
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