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Peter threw the ball.
Peter has the function of being the SUBJECT of the verb throw, and the ball
has the function of being the OBJECT of the verb.
grammatical meaning n
see CONTENT WORD
grammatical morpheme n
see MORPHEME
grammatical sensitivity n
see LANGUAGE APTITUDE
grammatical syllabus n
another term for structural syllabus
grammatical word n
see CONTENT WORD
grave accent n
the accent, e.g. on French près “near”.
see also ACCENT 2
grounding
grounded theory n
a general methodology of analysis in QUALITATIVE RESEARCH, inwhich the
first level of analysis is systematically collected data, the second is the conceptualization
of the data into categories and their properties (see CONSTANT
COMPARISON METHOD), and the third is an inductive theory (see ANALYTIC
INDUCTION), usually illustrated by characteristic examples of data.
grounding n
an aspect of the INFORMATION STRUCTURE of a sentence in which in an act
of communication, speakers assume that some information is more
important than other information. Information which is needed for the
listener to understand new information is background information, and
information which is new or considered more important is foregrounded
or foreground information. For example, in the sentence As I was coming
to school this morning, I saw an accident, I saw an accident, this morning
is foregrounded information and As I was coming to school is background
information. The foregrounded information is contained in the
main clause of the sentence, which comes after the clause containing
background information.
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