functional shift中文什么意思

【语言学】词性转换。

• functional:    adj. 1.官能的，机能的。 2. ...
• shift:    vt. 1.变动；改变；搬移；移动； ...
• conversion or functional shift:    转成法或功能转换法

百科释义

In linguistics, functional shift occurs when an existing word takes on a new syntactic function. For example, the word like, formerly only used as a preposition in comparisons (as in "eats like a pig"), is now also used in the same way as the subordinating conjunction as in many dialects of English (as in "sounds like he means it").