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Factitive As A Semantic Role
Factitive is the semantic role of an referent that results from the action or state identified by a verb.
Failure Of Fit
Failure of fit is a lack of correspondence between the state of affairs described by the propositional content of an illocutionary act, and in the world.
Familiarity
Familiarity is a kind of social deixis that expresses a high degree of solidarity between the speaker and addressee.
Feminine Gender
Feminine gender is a grammatical gender that marks nouns that have human or animal female referents, and often marks nouns that have referents that do not …
Field Distinction
A field distinction is a type of place deixis that expresses an opposition between locations in visual range and those not in visual range.
Field Notebook
A field notebook is a permanent record of your language data. Features Sturdy and bound Readily available as part of the regular stock in a local bookstore
Figurative Sense
A figurative sense is a meaning that is derived from a primary sense by analogy (for example, personification), association (for example, metonymy), or …
Final Clause
A final clause is the last clause in a clause chain. It is distinguished from medial clauses by a difference in verb morphology.
Finite Clause
A finite clause is a clause with a finite verb.
Finite Verb
A finite verb is a verb form that occurs in an independent clause, and is fully inflected according to the inflectional categories marked on verbs in the …
First Part
A first part is the first utterance in an adjacency pair.
First Person Deixis
First person deixis is deictic reference that refers to the speaker, or both the speaker and referents grouped with the speaker.
Fit
Fit is a correspondence, or lack of correspondence, between the state of affairs described by the propositional content of an illocutionary act and the …
Fixed Collocation
A fixed collocation is a phrase or construction which is decompositional, and whose constituents recurrently combine with each other. Features Constituents …
Fixed Lexical Collocation
A fixed lexical collocation is a collocation of two or more co-occurring lexemes in an unchanging syntactic and semantic relationship.
Flouting Implicature
A flouting implicature is a conversational implicature based on an addressee's assumption that the speaker is deliberately breaking (flouting) a …
Focus
Focus is a term that refers to information, in a sentence, that is new is of high communicative interest is marked by stress typically occurs late in the …
Force As A Semantic Role
Force is the semantic role of an entity that instigates an action, but not consciously or voluntarily.
Force Schema
A force schema is an image schema that involves physical or metaphorical causal interaction. It includes the following elements: A source and target of the …
Formal Language
Formal language is language use characterized by: speech before a passive audience the assumption of a role by the speaker the use of artificial means of …
Formality
Formality is a kind of social deixis that expresses the setting or social activity in which language use takes place.
Fortis Consonant
A fortis consonant is a “strong” consonant produced by increased tension in the vocal apparatus. These strong consonants tend to be long, voiceless, …
Fossilized Term
A fossilized term is a word or root that occurs only as an archaic expression.
Free Morpheme
A free morpheme is a grammatical unit that can occur by itself. However, other morphemes such as affixes can be attached to it.
Also known as Unbound morphemeFree Translation
A free translation is a translation that reproduces the general meaning of the original text. It may or may not closely follow the form or organization of …
Free Variation
Free variation is the interchangeable relationship between two phones , in which the phones may substitute for one another in the same environment without …
Function Word
A function word is a word which have no lexical meaning, and whose sole function is to express grammatical relationships. Also known as: grammatical word, …
Fusional Language
A fusional language is a language in which one form of a morpheme can simultaneously encode several meanings.
Future Perfect Tense
Future perfect tense is an absolute-relative tense that refers to a time located before a contextually determined temporal reference point that must be …
Future Tense
Future tense is an absolute tense that refers to a time after the moment of utterance .
Future-In-Future Tense
Future-in-future tense is an absolute-relative tense that refers to a time located in the future, relative to a temporal reference point that itself is …
Future-In-Past Tense
Future-in-past tense is an absolute-relative tense that refers to a time located in the future, relative to a contextually determined temporal reference …
Future-Perfect-In-Past Tense
Future-perfect-in-past tense is an absolute-relative tense that involves three points in time in the past. The tense refers to a time that is in the …
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