Key terms "chapters 12/13"
Across
- 3. What type of preterite is that? The transposition of past tense forms into the context of the present is used to express various degrees of politeness?
- 4. What verb has preserved more person-number forms than any other verb in modern English?
- 6. The function or use of deictic words or expressions (ones whose meaning depends on where, when or by whom they are used)
- 10. How can one call the second verbal tense category?
- 11. How can one call the first verbal tense category?
Down
- 1. What is treated as the correlation of the plural and the singular?
- 2. What type of transposition this is? the present tense form of the verb can be used to describe past events in order to create a vivid picture of the past, as if to make one’s interlocutor the eyewitness of the past events.
- 5. An inflectional form of a verb expressing a specific time distinction.
- 7. What is the correlation of three deictic functions, reflecting the relations of the referents to the participants of speech communication?
- 8. Time What type of time can be expressed only lexically?
- 9. verbs What verbs distinguish no person or number forms at all.