slifting en · NOUN
Etymology
Blend of sentence + lifting. Coined by American linguist John R. Ross.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The preposing of an embedded clause containing reported speech or beliefs.
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.
1977, Alice Davison, Indirect Speech Acts: a Natural Class or not?: