Lexicology Flashcards
Noun
a word used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things, or to name a particular one of these .
Verb
a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.
Adjectives
a word naming an attribute of a noun, such as sweet, red, or technical.
Adverbs
a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there ).
Interjections
a sudden or brief utterance that is usually that is usually not part of syntactic structure
Prepostion
closed class word that denotes a positional relationship between nouns
Pronoun
closed class word that replaces/ stands for a noun
Subordinating Conjunction
a conjunction that introduces a subordinate clause, e.g. although, because.
Coordinating Conjunction
a conjunction placed between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences of equal rank, e.g. and, but, or.
Determiner
a word that modifies a noun by providing more information about it.
Auxiliary Verb
a verb used alongside a main verb to indicate tense, mood, or voice within a sentence
The 9 Modal Verbs
Should Would Could Must May Shall Will Might Can
Commonisation
When a proper noun comes to be used for a general class of items
Nominalisation
When a word is formed into a noun to create an abstract quality or a more formal, impersonal style
Neologism
Newly Created lexemes often to label new inventions, technology social practices which may be formed through morphological processes
Borrowings
lexemes that have entered English through other languages
