Online dictionary by Angie Lescano https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw Angie Lescano en-us 2021-10-24 03:25:47 UTC 2021-10-24 03:43:02 UTC hello@padlet.com 1. Acronyms: /ˈæk.rə.nɪm/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838686543 Blends made up of initial letters.

Example:(OMG: Oh my god)

]]> 2021-10-24 03:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838686543 2. Blend: /blend/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838686765 Sporadically, however, we encounter a kind of compound where at least one component is reproduced only partially.

Example: snake, snack, snow, sneak, snore, snap.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:28:49 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838686765 3. Comparison: /kəmˈpær•ə•sən/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838687546 The grammatical words that green, greener and greenest express are the positive, comparative and superlative of "green", contrasting on the dimension of comparison.

Example: (hot, hotter, hottest).

]]> 2021-10-24 03:29:50 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838687546 4. Lexeme: /ˈlek.siːm/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838687916 Word seen as an abstract grammatical entity, represented concretely by one or more different inflected word forms according to the grammatical context.

Example: The verb lexeme “PERFORM” has four inflected word forms: perform, performs, performing and performed.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838687916 5. Morphemes: /ˈmɔːr.fiːm/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838688078 Smaller parts of words

Example: -sent in the word dissent.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:30:41 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838688078 6. Morphology: /mɔːrˈfɑː.lə.dʒi/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838688422 The area of grammar concerned with the structure of words and with relationships between words involving the morphemes that compose them.

Example: prefixes, suffixes and base words.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:31:10 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838688422 7. Onomatopoeic words: /ˌɑː.noʊˌmæt̬.oʊˈpiː.ɪk/ /wɜrdz/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838688624 Words for animal cries.

Example: meow, woof.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:31:31 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838688624 8. Prefixes: /ˈpri•fɪks/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838689701 Of the non-root morphemes in the words that we have looked at so far, those that precede the root.

Example: en- in enlarge

]]> 2021-10-24 03:33:12 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838689701 9. Proverb: /ˈprɑ•vərb/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838689983 Is a traditional saying, syntactically a sentence, whose conventional interpretation differs from what is suggested by the literal meaning of the words it contains.

Example: "Having too many people involved in a task makes it more difficult to complete."

]]> 2021-10-24 03:33:37 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838689983 10. Sound symbolism: /sɑʊnd/ /ˈsɪm.bəl.ɪ.zəm/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838690148 Sets of words in which some similarity in sound that seems to reflect a vague similarity in meaning, such as smoothness or wetness or both in the set of words.

For example: slip, slop, slurp, slide, slither, sleek, slick, slaver, slug.
]]> 2021-10-24 03:33:53 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838690148 1. Auxiliary verbs: /ɑːɡˈzɪl.i.er-/ /vɜrbs/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838690359 Reflects the fact that these verbs do not refer to actions or states but ‘help’ main verbs.

Example: Read to build a construction.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:34:13 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838690359 2. Clause: /klɔz/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838690553 Is a unit which as a minimum consists of a verb and its complements but which may consist of a verb, its complements and its adjuncts.

Example: The fast, red squirrel darted up a tree.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838690553 3. Collocational facts: /ˌkɒl.əˈkeɪ.ʃənəl/ /fækts/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838690721 Constitute interesting extra information but, and this is the difficulty, are not confined to verbs and their complement nouns; they apply to adjectives and nouns.

Example: heavy smoker, heavy drinker, staple diet, staple crop, staple industry.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:34:47 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838690721 4. Lexical: /ˈlek.sɪ.kəl/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838690882 They are known as lexical or content words, and in English include nouns 

Example: villa, baby, idea), verbs (. buy, destroy, think), adjectives (wooden, strong, abstract) adverbs (e.g. rapidly, hopefully.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:35:05 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838690882 5. Long Passive: /lɔŋ/ /ˈpæs•ɪv/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838691069 It contains an agent noun phrase; but approximately 95 per cent of passive clauses in spoken and written texts do not have a phrase referring to the do-er or agent.

Example: That piano was bought for his secret fiancée

]]> 2021-10-24 03:35:22 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838691069 6. Noun: /nɑʊn/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838691308 Being the names of persons, places and things and verbs being the names of actions or states.

Examples:Man, Women, Cat, Dogs, etc.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:35:46 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838691308 7. Phrase: /freɪz/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838691469 Is applied only to sequences of more than one word.

Example: He was waiting for the rain to stop.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:36:03 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838691469 8. Short passive: /ʃɔrt/ /ˈpæs•ɪv/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838691631 Without its agent phrase, as in the above example.

Example: That piano was bought for his secret fiancée.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:36:17 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838691631 9. Speech: /spiːtʃ/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838691820 Especially spontaneous conversation, practically nothing is signalled. In the reading-aloud of written texts, the reader may pause between sentences, but typically does not do so between clauses and certainly not between individual words.

Example: Informative speech, entertaining speech, entertaining speeches, persuasive speech, etc.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:36:38 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838691820 10. Suffixes: /ˈsʌf.ɪks/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838692010 Suffixes that express grammatical information, such as ‘plural’, are inflectional suffixes.

Examples: Such as -ish that derive new lexical items are derivational suffixes.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838692010 1. Ambiguity: /ˌæm.bɪˈɡjuː.ɪ.ti/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838692345 When words or phrases have more than one meaning, that is, when they are ambiguous.

Example: “The boy saw the man with a telescope” It is an ambiguity because we don’t know who had the telescope.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:37:32 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838692345 2. Anomaly: /əˈnɒm.ə.li/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838692585 If the individual words have meaning but cannot be combined together as required by the syntactic structure and related semantic rules, we will also not get to a meaning.

Example: “Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.”

]]> 2021-10-24 03:37:54 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838692585 3. Aphasia: /əˈfeɪ.ʒə/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838692784 Is the neurological term for any language disorder that results from brain damage caused by disease or trauma.

Example: a person with Broca's aphasia may say, "Walk dog," meaning, "I will take the dog for a walk," or "book book two table," for "There are two books on the table." People with Broca's aphasia typically understand the speech of others fairly well.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838692784 4. Contradictions: /ˌkɑːn.trəˈdɪk.ʃən/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838692944 Sentences are always false.

Example: Circles are square.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838692944 5. Entailment: /ɪnˈteɪl.mənt/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838693135 One sentence entails another if whenever the first sentence is true the second one is also true, in all conceivable circumstances.

Example: The sentence “Jack swims beautifully” is true, we also know that the sentence “Jack swims” must also be true.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838693135 6. Idioms: /ˈɪd.i.əm/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838693291 Have a fixed meaning, that is, a meaning that is not compositional.

Example: “Better late than never” Means “Better to arrive late than not to come at all.”

]]> 2021-10-24 03:39:07 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838693291 7. Metaphors: /ˈmet̬.ə.fɔːr/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838693502 Some sentences with lot of creativity and imagination to derive a meaning.

Example: “The classroom was a zoo.”

]]> 2021-10-24 03:39:26 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838693502 8. Semantics: /səˈmæn.t̬ɪks/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838693672 The study of the linguistic meaning of morphemes, words, phrases, and sentences.

Example: "destination" and "last stop" technically mean the same thing, but students of semantics analyze their subtle shades of meaning.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838693672 9. Synonymous: /sɪˈnɑː.nə.məs/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838693848 If they are both true or both false with respect to the same situations.

Example: Afraid, scared and frightened.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:39:55 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838693848 10. Tautologies: /tɑːˈtɑː.lə.dʒi/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838693991 Their truth is guaranteed solely by the meaning of their parts and the way they are put together

Example: “Circles are round.”

]]> 2021-10-24 03:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838693991 1. Argument structures: /ˈɑr•ɡjə•mənt/ /ˈstrʌk•tʃərs/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838694326 Which describe the NPs that may occur with particular verbs.

Example: the verb 'build' can be represented as a predicate taking two arguments, while the verb 'give' takes three arguments.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:40:29 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838694326 2. Deictic: /ˈdeɪk.tɪk/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838694479 Require knowledge of the situation (person spoken to, place, time, spatial orientation) of the utterance to be interpreted referentially.

Example: you, there, now, and the other side.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:40:43 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838694479 3. Deixis: /ˈdeɪk.sɪs/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838694666 In all languages, the reference of certain words and expressions relies entirely on the situational context of the utterance, and can only be understood in light of these circumstances.

Example: if you would ask a visiting exchange student, "Have you been in this country long?" the words this country and you are the deictic expressions, as they refer to the country where the conversation happens and the person being addressed in the conversation, respectively.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:41:01 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838694666 4. Discourse: /ˈdɪs.kɔːrs/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838694868 Consists of several sentences, including exchanges between speakers.

Example: An example of discourse is a professor meeting with a student to discuss a book.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:41:22 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838694868 5. Discourse analysis: /ˈdɪs.kɔːrs/ /əˈnæl•ə•sɪs/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838695008 Is concerned with the broad speech units comprising multiple sentences. It involves questions of style, appropriateness, cohesiveness, rhetorical force, topic/subtopic structure, etc.

Example: Charles Fillmore points out that two sentences taken together as a single discourse can have meanings different from each one taken separately.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:41:37 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838695008 6. Implicatures: / ˈimplikəCHər / angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838695182 Are deductions that are not made strictly on the basis of the content expressed in the discourse.

Example: a speaker who says “I ate some of the cookies” could properly be meaning either “I ate them all” (engaging in understatement), or “I did not eat them all” (quantity implicature), or “I do not know whether I ate them all” (ignorance implicature).

]]> 2021-10-24 03:41:54 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838695182 7. Pragmatics: /præɡˈmæt̬.ɪks/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838695444 Is concerned with our understanding of language in context.

Example: Will you crack open the door? I am getting hot..

]]> 2021-10-24 03:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838695444 8. Presuppositions: /ˌpriː.sʌp.əˈzɪʃ.əns/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838695557 Situations that must exist for utterances to be appropriate.

Example: Jane no longer writes fiction. Presupposition: Jane once wrote fiction.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:42:34 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838695557 9. Pronouns: /ˈproʊˌnɑʊn/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838695704 Are lexical items that can get their meaning from other NPs in the sentence or in the larger discourse.

Example: I, me, he, she, herself, you, it, that, they, etc.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838695704 10. Thematic roles: /θiːˈmæt̬.ɪk/ /roʊls/ angielescano1 https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838695887 Describe the semantic relations between a verb and its NP arguments.

Example: objects of give and hand, subjects of walk and die.

]]> 2021-10-24 03:43:02 UTC https://padlet.com/angielescano1/9oa2vms4eji0pqbw/wish/1838695887