Chapter 7: Simple Sentences

Question 1

Argument

Answer 1

Phrases that are required by a predicate.

Question 2

Adjuncts

Answer 2

Phrases that are not required by a predicate; bijwoorden.

Question 3

Valency

Answer 3

The nummer of arguments that necessarily accompanies a predicate.

Question 4

One-place predicate

Answer 4

A predicate that requires just one argument.

Question 5

Two-place predicate

Answer 5

A predicate that requires two arguments.

Question 6

Three-place predicate

Answer 6

A predicate that requires three arguments.

Question 7

Intransitive

Answer 7

One-place predicate.

Question 8

Transitive

Answer 8

Two-place predicate.

Question 9

Ditransitive

Answer 9

Three-place predicate.

Question 10

Four-place predicate

Answer 10

A predicate that requires four arguments.

Question 11

Zero-place predicate

Answer 11

Predicates that do not require any arguments.

Question 12

Semantic role

Answer 12

An underlying relationship that a participant has with the main verb in the clause.

Question 13

Agent

Answer 13

The entity that takes the initiative for an event; the acting person.

Question 14

Patient

Answer 14

The entity undergoing the action.

Question 15

Location

Answer 15

The place where an event occurs or entity is located.

Question 16

Instrument

Answer 16

The entity used to carry out the action.

Question 17

Recipient

Answer 17

Entity that receives something.

Question 18

Source

Answer 18

The entity something originates from.

Question 19

Grammatical role

Answer 19

When the constituent that determines the perspective of a sentence has the grammatical role of subject.

Question 20

Subject

Answer 20

Person that is being discussed or described; onderwerp.

Question 21

Active clause

Answer 21

A clause with a transitive predicate where the agent is the subject.

Question 22

Passive clause

Answer 22

A clause with a transitive predicate where the patient is the subject.

Question 23

Object

Answer 23

The entity that is acted upon by the subject; lijdend/meewerkend voorwerp.

Question 24

Cases

Answer 24

The bound expression forms of semantic and grammatical roles.

Question 25

Valency-reduction

Answer 25

Lowering the number of arguments required by the verb.

Question 26

Co-referential

Answer 26

What the agent and the patient are when they have the same referent.

Question 27

Reflexive pronoun

Answer 27

A pronoun referring to the subject of the clause in which it stands; wederkerend voornaamwoord.

Question 28

Reflexive construction

Answer 28

A clause with a reflective pronoun.

Question 29

Pronominalisation

Answer 29

To treat as a pronoun or turn into a pronoun.

Question 30

Pro-drop

Answer 30

When the pronoun is dropped.

Question 31

Predicate

Answer 31

Expresses a relation between some phrases or specifies a property of a phrase; a simple predicate consists only of verbs.