Quiz 2 Flashcards
noun
subject of sentence
adjectives
appears between determiners and noun (modifies nouns)
adverbs
appears between subject and verb (modifies verb)
verb
subject and object (actions)
determiners
specify nouns (the, some, this)
prepositions
relations between nouns (in, an, under)
derivational
creating new words out of other words
inflectional
grammatical changes
free
independent words
bound
affixes
content morpheme
independent meaning
function morpheme
dependent meaning
proposition
claim expressed by a sentence (can be true of false= truth value)
entailment
both statements have to be true but only 1 entails the other
mutual entailment
both entail each other
contradiction
propositions are not compatible with each other
idioms
non compositional lexical expressions
maxim of quality
information is true
maxim of quantity
only saying as much as needed
maxim of relevance
items that are relevant to the discussion
maxim of manner
concise, simple language
assertion
conveys information
question
elicits information
order/request
demand action (request –>polite)