Lexis and semantics terminology Flashcards
Evaluative adjectives
Offer a judgement
Comparative adjectives
End in ‘-er’ or have ‘more’ infront
Superlative adjectives
Express highest degree of quality
Attributive adjectives
Come before noun they modify
Predictive adjectives
Comes after noun with verb inbetween
Post-postive adjective
Comes immediately after a noun
Dynamic adjective
Physical action
Static verb
States or feelings
Auxiliary verb
helping verb (am/is/has)
Denontic modal verb
express certainty/compulsion
Epistemic modal verb
expresses possibility/choice
Progressive verbs
an action in process
Perfective verbs
action that is completed, comes with an auxiliary
Progressive-perfect verb
express a completed action as though it was still in progress (-ing + has/had)
Adverb of manner
how something is done
Adverb of time
when something happens/frequency of something
Adverb of degree
a.k.a intensifiers
Adverb of place
where something happens
Co-ordinating conjunction
connect words/clauses that have equal status
Subordinating conjunction
connect words/clauses that have unequal status
Demonstrative determiner
that/this/these/those
Demonstrative pronoun
my/your (before noun)
Definite determiner
the
Indefinite determiner
a
Personal pronoun
takes the place of a person
first person
I
second person
you
third person
he/she/they
reflexive pronoun
self added
reciprocal pronoun
each other/ one another
Interrogative pronoun
who/what/why
Relative pronoun
follow the noun they refer to
Modifier
a word that modifies a sentence/ adds to the sense of the head noun
neologisms
new words
compound words
new word created by joining two existing words together
Semantic field
words not connected to the main subject
Lexical field
words connected to the main subject
collocations
words that go together
meiosis
deliberate understatement
synecdoche
a part stands in for a whole/ vice versa
metonymy
one thing represents something else
