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Range As A Semantic Role
Range is the semantic role of the entity that completes, is a product of, or further specifies an event.
Range Of Reference
A range of reference is a collection of all possible entities in the referential realm denoted by a lexical unit.
Also known as Participant Identification, Participant TrackingRank
Rank is the relationship between units that refer to different values of some variable underlying property such as the following: Degree Grade Relative …
Rank Lexical Relation
A rank lexical relation is an association between lexical units which have different relative values based on some shared underlying semantic property.
Ratified Participant
A ratified participant is one who, in a speech event, has the role of speaker addressee , or intended audience.
Realis Modality
Realis modality is a modality that connotes the factuality of a proposition .
Reason-Result Relation
A reason-result relation is a causal relation in which the propositions express an event or state that brings about another event or state. The result …
Receiving Time
Receiving time is the time at which an addressee hears or reads a message. This time may be the deictic center for expressions of time deixis .
Recent Past Tense
Recent past tense is a past tense that refers to a time, culturally and situationally defined, within the span ranging from yesterday to a week or a few …
Reciprocal Pronoun
A reciprocal pronoun is a pronoun that expresses a mutual feeling or action among the referents of a plural subject .
Reduplication
Reduplication is a morphological process in which a root or stem or part of it is repeated.
Reference
Here are two senses for reference: Reference is the symbolic relationship that a linguistic expression has with the concrete object or abstraction it …
Reference Clause
Here are two senses of a reference clause: A reference clause is a clause with an argument that, in a marking clause elsewhere in the sentence, is signaled …
Reference Grammar
A reference grammar is a prose-like description of the major grammatical constructions in a language, illustrated with examples.
Referent
A referent is the concrete object or concept that is designated by a word or expression. A referent is an object, action, state, relationship, or attribute …
Referent Honorific
A referent honorific is an honorific for which both the referent and the target of the expression of relative social status are the same.
Referential Realm
The referential realm is anything, real or imagined, that a person may talk about.
Reflexive Pronoun
A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that has coreference with the subject .
Reflexive Verb
A reflexive verb is a verb whose agent performs an action that is directed at itself. It characteristically takes a reflexive pronoun as its object .
Reformulation
A reformulation is a self-repair by means of a paraphrase of the repairable item.
Rejection Finalizer
A rejection finalizer is a move that signals the speaker 's acceptance of a rejection by another participant. The rejection may be of an offer that has …
Relational Proposition
A relational proposition is a proposition that arises as an implicature between two propositions or groups of propositions that are related by an …
Relational Social Deixis
Relational social deixis is deictic reference to a social relationship between the speaker and an addressee , bystander, or other referent in the …
Relative Adverb
A relative adverb is a pro-adverb that marks a relative clause .
Relative Clause
A relative clause is a clause which describes the referent of a head noun or pronoun . It often restricts the reference of the head noun or pronoun.
Relative Future Tense
Relative future tense is a relative tense that refers to a time located after a contextually determined temporal reference point, regardless of the …
Relative Nonfuture Tense
Relative nonfuture tense is a relative tense that refers to a time simultaneous to, or before, a contextually determined temporal reference point, …
Relative Nonpast Tense
Relative nonpast tense is a relative tense that refers to a time simultaneous to, or after, a contextually determined temporal reference point, regardless …
Relative Past Tense
Relative past tense is a relative tense that refers to a time located before that of a contextually determined temporal reference point.
Relative Present Tense
Relative present tense is a relative tense that refers to a time that is simultaneous with some contextually determined temporal reference point.
Relative Pronoun
A relative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause functions grammatically within the relative clause, and is coreferential to the word modified …
Relative Tense
Relative tense is a tense that refers to a time in relation to a contextually determined temporal reference point, regardless of the latter’s temporal …
Relativizer
A relativizer is a subordinating conjunction that links a relative clause to its head noun . It is distinguishable from a relative pronoun in that it does …
Relator
A relator is a lexical item whose function is to show the relationship between its surrounding constructions.
Relevance Implicature
A relevance implicature is a conversational implicature based on an addressee 's assumption as to whether a speaker is observing or flouting the …
Remote Future Tense
Remote future is a future tense that refers to a time that is considered relatively distant. It is characteristically after the span of time culturally …
Remote Past Tense
Remote past tense is a past tense that refers to a time considered more than a few days ago.
Repair
A repair is an alteration that is suggested or made by a speaker , the addressee , or audience in order to correct or clarify a previous conversational …
Repartee Discourse
Repartee discourse is a discourse that is used to recount a series of speech exchanges.
Restatement Relation
A restatement relation is an interpropositional relation in which a proposition(s) substantially paraphrases another proposition(s).
Restraint Removal Schema
A restraint removal schema is a force schema that involves the physical or metaphorical removal of a barrier to the action of a force, or absence of a …
Restrictive Relative Clause
A restrictive relative clause is a relative clause that helps to identify the referent of the word that it modifies.
Result
A result is a semantic role that refers to that which is produced by an event. This role is usually encoded as the surface object of a sentence .
Reverential Form
A reverential form is an expression of social deixis that encodes very high status.
Rhetorical Question
A rhetorical question is an illocutionary act that has the direct illocutionary force of a question , and is not generally used with the expectation of an …
Rhotacized Vowel
A rhotacized vowel is a vowel colored with the sound of an r.
Rime
A rime is the part of a syllable which consists of its vowel and any consonant sounds that come after it.
Root
A root is the portion of a word that is common to a set of derived or inflected forms, if any, when all affixes are removed is not further analyzable into …
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