These replace nouns and noun phrases, often to avoid repetition.
What are pronouns?
One is a verb used in forming the tenses, moods, and voices of other verbs
What are auxiliary verbs?
List 3 discourse features.
What are openings and closings; adjacency pairs; minimal responses/backchannels; overlapping speech; discourse markers/particles; non-fluency features including pauses, filled pauses/voiced hesitations, false starts, repetition, repairs?
These are three types of syntactic patterning.
What are antithesis, listing, and parallelism?
These are the three categories of discourse strategies (according to the Study Design)?
What are topic management, turn-taking, and management of repair sequences.
This word class express the possibility, intent, obligation or necessity of an action occurring.
What are modal verbs?
This is one reason why one would use an agentless passive construction.
When (1) the agent is unimportant, uninteresting, or obvious; (2) the agent is unknown; (3) to create a more formal register; (4) to switch focus from agent to patient; (5) to hide responsibility for an action?
A lexical set of words that are grouped by meaning and share a common semantic property.
What is a semantic domain?