The means employed by a
speaker to accomplish the illocutionary point of an utterance
A
constituent, in an endocentric construction, that imparts information relating to the head of the construction.
Two or more sounds which share phonetic features and are frequently found as variants of a single phonological unit in a
languageA
meaning that is more
abstract than a primary sense of a
lexeme but still shares some of its semantic components
A
text which explains something
Any discrete unit or phone, produced by the vocal apparatus, or a representation of such a unit
A
verb whose agent performs an action that is directed at itself. It characteristically takes a reflexive
pronoun as its object
The distinctive
pitch level which marks contrasts in
grammatical features such as tense, aspect, and case.
A distinction in place
deixis that indicates distance from the speaker or other deictic center
