Syntactic Definitions
This is the NP that is sister to VP
What is the subject?
This type of mood indicates true things
What is indicative?
This type of word is described as containing only one morpheme
What is monomorphemic?
Words like 'this', 'that', 'these', and 'those' exhibit what property? (What type of word are they?)
What is deixis?
This is an affix that goes at attaches at the beginning of other morphemes
What is a prefix?
This is an NP that is sister to the V'?
What is an adjunct?
This grammatical category describes actions that have taken place, are taking place, or will take place but not actions that are conditional, desiderative, or fictional
What is realis?
These morphemes have lexical meanings that cover things like persons, places, things, actions, states, and properties
What are content morphemes?
This semantic role is used for NPs that are transferred from one person/place to another?
What is a theme?
This type of morpheme attaches to the end of a morpheme
What is a suffix?
This is an NP that is sister to V but is not an indirect object
What is a direct object?
This macro category describes those acted upon in a sentence such as patient and theme
What is undergoer?
These morphemes have grammatical meanings such as tense, aspect, number, gender, and person
What are functional morphemes?
This semantic role describes where an event takes place
What is a location?
This type of morpheme is inserted inside another morpheme
This is a term for different types of sentences such as command, question, passive, and declarative
What is construction?
This is the macro category that describes doers of the action of the sentence such as agents and experiencers
What is Actor?
These morphemes must be attached to other morphemes
What are bound morphemes?
This construction promotes the direct object of a declarative sentence and demotes the subject to an adjunct
What is a passive?
This is a root plus an affix
What is a stem?
This term describes the category of grammatical information that includes possibility, permitablity, desirability, prohibition and probability and is seen in English words like 'can', 'should', 'would', and 'must'
What is modality?
These are functions that an NP can be assigned by a verb in a sentence such as agent, experience, patient, stimulus and theme
What are semantic roles?
These morphemes can stand alone?
What are free morphemes?
This information is not entailed but is understood as part of a sentence. It is information that defeasible from the main meaning of the sentence.
What is an implicature?
This is a morpheme that attaches to a whole phrase and not a particular morpheme
What is a clitic?