Lexical Families, Semantics, and Word Relationships

Lexical Families and Word Formation

Lexical families: A lexical family is the set of words that use the same base lexeme (e.g., the lexical family terr- (earth) is formed by words like earth, earthy, Terrero, burial).

Affixes: These are grammatical, derivative morphemes that function in the structure of the word as thematic formants (i.e., items that belong to a lexical unit). They are added to a base, modifying and clarifying its general meaning, thus creating a new word from an existing one.

Parasynthesis:

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Fate and Free Will in Macbeth and Death and the Maiden

Introduction:

Throughout our lives, we are faced with paths rarely understood. As nature takes its course, we are put up against the world of fate, questioning if it can be controlled or modified by humans. This is evident in Shakespeare’s Macbeth (first performed in 1606) and Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden (written in 1990). These two famous plays show that an individual has control of his or her own destiny, using literary techniques such as the reliability of senses (hallucinations of the

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Understanding Text: Properties, Types, and Linguistic Forms

Text: Any linguistic communication, oral or written, made by a speaker in particular circumstances. It is a communicative act, because the speaker performs an action by expressing an intention. It occurs in a particular extra-linguistic situation. The text has a structure that relates its entirety by giving coherence and unity. The extension has no precise boundaries. All text must satisfy requirements: textual properties, which are adequacy, coherence, and cohesion. These properties must be added

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Understanding Sentence Structure, Berceo, and Renaissance Poetry

Sentence Structure and Verb Types

Subject-predicate: The subject is always present, either expressed or omitted.

Impersonal Prayers: These are without a subject. The verb is always in the third person.

Attributes: Attributes are shown with a copula (to be, or may seem).

Predicative products do not have an attribute.

Transitive verbs: These have a direct object.

Intransitive verbs: These do not have a direct object.

Active voice: Attention is focused on the subject agent.

Passive voice: These are formed

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Understanding Text Types and News Structure

Types of Texts

Exposition: Is the linguistic manifestation of content. Such exposure may follow a deductive approach (idea-analysis) or an inductive approach (analysis, idea).

Demonstration: Try using the statement of observable facts and a hypothesis. You can also develop these through deductive or intuitive approaches.

Argumentation: Used when the argument is to prove an idea.

Description: This is when parts of a very important whole are exposed. It is in spatial order.

Commentary Text

1. Type

  • It is
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Semantic Tests: Key Concepts and Definitions

Weak Determiners

Weak determiners denote a cardinal quantifier (Q).

Simple Future Representation

S_E,R is the representation of simple future.

Quantifier Restriction over Event Time

The restriction of a quantifier over an event time variable consists of a relation between the event time and reference time.

Relational Predicates

Which of the following grammatical categories denote relational predicates? Action verbs and prepositions.

Quantifier Restriction and Logical Modality

The restriction of a quantifier

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