Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of swipe
- abbreviationacronymuncountablehuman sciencesAcronym of sluiced wh-word inversion with prepositions in Northern Germanic
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It is clear that these data rule out simply assimilating swiping to preposition-stranding across the board, as early researchers did; the absence of swiping in Swedish, Icelandic, and Frisian (and for certain speakers of Norwegian, who nonetheless allow preposition-stranding in general) indicates that merely being able to strand a preposition is not a sufficient predictive criterion for swiping.
2002, Jason Merchant, “Swiping in Germanic”, in Jan-Wouter Zwart and Werner Abraham, editors, Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax, page 310
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with swiping
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