backshift
verbEtymology From back + shift.
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences To change the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
backshift
nounUK, US /ˈbækʃɪft/
Etymology From back + shift.
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
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Mathematics, Sciences, Statistics A function on a stochastic process whose value on any random variable is the preceding random variable in the process.