canonical form

noun

🔊/kəˈnɒnɪkl fɔːm/

🔊/kəˈnɑːnɪkl fɔːrm/

(linguistics语言学)

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the most basic form of a grammatical structure or expression, for example the infinitive in the case of a verb（语法结构或表达的）标准形式，最基本形式（如动词的不定式）