SHIFTING

Shifting

In linguistics, shifting occurs when two or more constituents appearing on the same side of their common head exchange positions in a sense, so that non-canonical order obtains. The most widely acknowledged type of shifting is heavy NP shift, although shifting involving a heavy NP is but one particular manifestation of the shifting mechanism. Shifting occurs in most if not all European languages, and it may in fact be possible in all natural languages. Shifting is not inversion, and inversion is not shifting, but the two mechanisms are similar insofar as they are both present in languages like English that have relatively strict word ...

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shifting

Noun

  1. A shift; a shifting movement.

Verb



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