Satellite

附目

A term used in functional grammar to refer to those elements which turn a nuclear predication into a full predication. Satellites specify further properties of the nuclear state of affairs expressed in a sentence - such as manner, temporal and locative.

功能语法术语，指那些将一核心谓语变为完整谓语的成分。附目进一步规定句子表达的核心事态的特性，如方式、时间和处所。