Non-Political Constituency
You can determine whether a phrase is a constituent by making one of these pairs.
What is a question and answer pair?
Assertions, questions, requests, orders, promises, and threats are all different types of this.
What are Speech Acts?
That smelly smell that smells smelly.
What is a determiner phrase.
In this theory, people commonly think our brain stores meaning like a large book storing every possible word and its meaning.
What are dictionary style definitions.
Purposely violating a Gricean Maxim in order to conveying a different meaning based on a shared understanding of the maxims.
What is flouting?
Using this constituency test frequently leads to archaic or otherwise unfamiliar English syntax.
What is Clefting?
The circumstances required to render a particular variety of speech act felicitous
What are felicity conditions?
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
What is a prepositional phrase?
For any given set, these are members which that exhibits the typical qualities of the members of that set.
What are prototypes?
Purposefully lying is a means to violate this maxim.
What is the Maxim of Quality?
In syntax this is a constituency test that involves replacing a constituent with a single word (or simple phrase).
What is substitution or pro-form substitution?
When someone asks the question "Is there any salt" they are performing this kind of speech act.
What is an indirect speech act?
That is the hydro-dynamic spatula with port and starboard attachments and turbo drive.
What is a noun phrase?
The problem with this method of storing meaning stems from the difference in people's perception, self-centered narratives, and a default to prototypes.
What are mental image definitions?
Describes an utterance that is appropriate for the context in which it is uttered.
What is felicitous or felicity?
Daily Double!
Frequently appearing as a pronoun, this is a word that can be used to replace a syntactic constituent.
What is Pro-form?
The 'K' in the SPEAKING mnemonic stands for this.
What is Key?
Squidward used the terrifying story about the Hash Slinging Slasher to scare SpongeBob.
What is a noun phrase?
This is a component of linguistic meaning that relates the sense of some expression to entities in the outside world.
What is a reference?
According to this Maxim, you must:
•Be brief, clear, and orderly
•Avoid obscurity and ambiguity
•Match the pitch, tone, volume, and speed of others
What is the Maxim of Manner?
This is a group of linguistic expressions that function as a syntactic unit within some larger expression.
What are syntactic constituents?
Certain ceremonies such as marriages, boat christening, and court proclemations require the use of these.
What are performative verbs?
Plankton demolished the Krusty Krab in an attempt to steal the Krabby Patty Secret Formula.TM
What is a transitive verb?
This system of semantic meaning, while not perfect, characterizes a word’s sense based on the way that the word is used by speakers of a language.
What are usage based definitions?
Principle formulated by the philosopher H.P. Grice, stating that underlying a conversation is the understanding that what one says is intended to contribute to the purposes of the conversation.
What is the Cooperative Principle?