junctive
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
junctive (plural junctives)
- (grammar) An element of syntax that serves as a junction.
- 2014, Maeve Olohan, Myriam Salama-Carr, Science in Translation, page 356:
- For junction, translation shifts are calculated in two steps because there is no straightforward equivalence between Chinese and English junctives.
- 2015, Lucien Tesnière, Elements of Structural Syntax, page 329:
- The junctive is not part of either of the two nuclei that it joins together. Just as the mortar that binds two bricks is not part of either, or as the coupling that unites two railcars appears external to both, a junctive remains outside of the two nuclei it unites.