slifting

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slifting

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Etymology

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

Noun

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?‎:

     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.

Derived terms

• slift (verb)

Anagrams

• fistling, flitings, liftings, stifling