definitionss contrastiva

Question 1

activity

Answer 1

action that can go on for an indefinite period of time

Question 2

achievement:

Answer 2

action that occurs instantaneously

Question 3

continua

Answer 3

the action is presented as permanent

Question 4

iterativa

Answer 4

the action is presented as repeated/habitual

Question 5

progresiva

Answer 5

the action is presented as in progress

Question 6

argument

Answer 6

a referring expression that points to an entity in the extra-linguistic world

Question 7

predicator

Answer 7

makes the most specific contribution to the meaning of a sentence

Question 8

dummy it

Answer 8

has little or no meaning whose only role is place filler

Question 9

tense

Answer 9

grammatical category realized by a verb inflection

Question 10

lexical aspect

Answer 10

points to the meaning that a verb has

Question 11

non-epistemic

Answer 11

associated with an entity impacting on another entity’s actions/behaviour

Question 12

agent

Answer 12

performs the action

Question 13

experiencer

Answer 13

experience/are affected by an emotion

Question 14

patient

Answer 14

undergoing the effect of some action/a change of state

Question 15

beneficiary

Answer 15

benefited by the action

Question 16

goal

Answer 16

place or entity to which the movement is oriented

Question 17

source

Answer 17

place/entity where the movement originates

Question 18

location

Answer 18

place where the action is located

Question 19

instrument

Answer 19

element with which the action is carried out

Question 20

theme

Answer 20

entity moved by the action / has a property ascribed to it

Question 21

recipient

Answer 21

directly receives something

Question 22

indefinite article

Answer 22

there’s more than one entity that can satisfy the description. It usually introduces a new entity

Question 23

middle voice

Answer 23

allows the subject of a sentence to be nono-agentive but the morphology of the verb in the active voice

Question 24

motion

Answer 24

expression of movement

Question 25

path

Answer 25

trajectory followed by the Figure

Question 26

figure

Answer 26

movable object

Question 27

ground

Answer 27

reference object

Question 28

manner

Answer 28

motion that naturally occurs considering the figure