expressive
suomi-englanti sanakirjaexpressive englannista suomeksi
ilmeikäs
Substantiivi
expressive englanniksi
(ux)
Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent.
2017, Tammi Leann Stout, ''An investigation of projection and temporal reference in Kaqchikel'' (dissertation for the University of Texas at Austin):
- Consider the case of expressives, where no prior knowledge of the speaker’s attitudes are required to interpret the utterance. In (43)
A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an (l)), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of (m).
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2017, Sam Gray, ''Classifications of Mundari Expressives and Other Reduplicated Structures'' (thesis):
- I examine the valency of expressives, a class of ideophones in Mundari, comparing their behaviors as predicates to those of reduplicated verb forms.
(feminine singular of)
(de-adj form of)