definitionss contrastiva Flashcards
activity
action that can go on for an indefinite period of time
achievement:
action that occurs instantaneously
continua
the action is presented as permanent
iterativa
the action is presented as repeated/habitual
progresiva
the action is presented as in progress
argument
a referring expression that points to an entity in the extra-linguistic world
predicator
makes the most specific contribution to the meaning of a sentence
dummy it
has little or no meaning whose only role is place filler
tense
grammatical category realized by a verb inflection
lexical aspect
points to the meaning that a verb has
non-epistemic
associated with an entity impacting on another entity’s actions/behaviour
agent
performs the action
experiencer
experience/are affected by an emotion
patient
undergoing the effect of some action/a change of state
beneficiary
benefited by the action
goal
place or entity to which the movement is oriented
source
place/entity where the movement originates
location
place where the action is located
instrument
element with which the action is carried out
theme
entity moved by the action / has a property ascribed to it
recipient
directly receives something
indefinite article
there’s more than one entity that can satisfy the description. It usually introduces a new entity
middle voice
allows the subject of a sentence to be nono-agentive but the morphology of the verb in the active voice
motion
expression of movement