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Flashcards by Michael Tewes, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Michael Tewes
almost 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What is USUAL MEANING? | USUAL MEANING: total representational content that is associated with a word for any member of a speech community (as described in dictionaries) |
| What is OCCASIONAL MEANING? | OCCASIONAL MEANING: the representational content that an interlocutor (the one who speaks) associates with a word when he uses it, and which he expects the hearer to associate with the word as well. |
| What are MORPHOSYNTACTIC PROMINENCE HIERARCHIES? | Cases, grammatical functions (Subject, object...) and syntactic positions are ranked, so that some items are more prominent then others. i.e. Nominativ is more prominent then accusative. |
| What is LEXICAL SEMANTIC PROMINENCE? | Is also a kind of hierarchy. i.e. agents have priority to subject position over instruments, which have priority over patients. |
| Explain PROMINENCE PRESERVATION. | Connected to argument alternation, in which one ore more arguments of a verb has multiple encoding options |
| Explain ARGUMENT / OBLIQUE ALTERNATION. | One or more arguments in a clause alternate between: direct ARGUMENT (subject, direct object, and indirect object) and OBLIQUE realization. |
| What is a DIRECT ARGUMENT? | A DIRECT ARGUMENT is one that has the subject, direct object, or indirect object grammatical function (as much as grammatical functions can be determined in a language) and/or structural case such as nominative, accusative, or structural dative |
| What is an OBLIQUE ARGUMENT? | An OBLIQUE ARGUMENT is one that has an oblique grammatical function and/or is marked by a non- structural case/adposition (including semantic dative) or both. |
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