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... inherent in the nouns they modify . When we interpret sentences , we use superficial form to decide how words and phrases function . The position of a word or phrase determines how we interpret its function within the sentence ...
... inherent in the nouns they modify . When we interpret sentences , we use superficial form to decide how words and phrases function . The position of a word or phrase determines how we interpret its function within the sentence ...
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... inherent in the ending -able and how the activity of the suppressed experiencer becomes an attribute of a noun . ( In this case , the adjective functioned as a noun , a common usage e.g. , the poor , the quick and the dead , the ...
... inherent in the ending -able and how the activity of the suppressed experiencer becomes an attribute of a noun . ( In this case , the adjective functioned as a noun , a common usage e.g. , the poor , the quick and the dead , the ...
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... inherent characteristic , of that noun . adverb : A category of words that qualify predicates ( verbs , adjectives ) or entire clauses and sentences , e.g. , fairly , usually , now , adding information regarding the time , place , or ...
... inherent characteristic , of that noun . adverb : A category of words that qualify predicates ( verbs , adjectives ) or entire clauses and sentences , e.g. , fairly , usually , now , adding information regarding the time , place , or ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
Copyright | |
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action adjectives agency agent agentless passives analysis assertion assume assumptions attribute Baugh behaviors chapter conceptual consensus reality context culture deictic describe descriptions dialect Dictionary discussion distinction Dyirbal English language euphemism example explicit fact false deixis father feelings female female-specific feminine Feminist force fuck function gender girl grammarians grammatical gender heterosexual human nouns idea identify implied interpret Jespersen Láadan label Lakoff language Latin Lesbian linguistic lives male dominance Mary Daly masculine meaning men's metaphors misogyny modal morphemes Norman French noun phrase objects ourselves patriarchal perceive perceptions person predicates prescriptive grammars pronoun psych-predicates rape readers reality reference relationship responsible rhetorical rules semantic sentence sex-specific sexual social someone speak specific speech structure suggests suppressed Suzette Haden Elgin syntactic talk tense thing tion topic universe of discourse verb vocabulary woman women words writing