Galician PAU Language and Literature II: foundations flashcards
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- Enclisis
- Attachment of an unstressed pronoun after its governing word, requiring the actual Galician spelling and relevant accentuation.
- Proclisis
- Position of an unstressed pronoun before its governing verb, determined by the actual clause and relevant triggering expressions.
- Inflected infinitive
- An infinitive form bearing person and number endings that can help identify its subject in an appropriate construction.
- Synthetic pluperfect
- A single-word verbal form such as cantara that can locate an event before another past reference point.
- Indirect object
- A participant often expressing a recipient or related role, whose pronoun selection depends on the particular governing construction.
- Thesis
- The central position developed by a text, which must be distinguished from an example or an attributed opposing view.
- Concession
- A relationship acknowledging a consideration while maintaining another claim, without necessarily rejecting either proposition as entirely false.
- Textual inference
- A conclusion supported by the supplied wording and context, rather than an invented motive or an unrelated personal experience.
- Anaphoric reference
- Reference back to an earlier expression or proposition, requiring the reader to identify the actual antecedent in context.
- Simile
- An explicit comparison between elements, often signalled by coma, whose meaning must be explained within the particular passage.
- Coherence
- The meaningful overall relationship among a text’s ideas, distinct from merely inserting visible connecting words between unrelated statements.
- Cohesion
- The linguistic links among parts of a text, including reference, repetition and connectors that contribute to readable relationships.
- Counterargument
- A relevant competing consideration addressed accurately before explaining how the main position responds to or accommodates its force.
- Register
- Language choices appropriate to reader, purpose and situation, rather than a universal ranking of speakers or varieties.
- Revision
- A deliberate review of relevance, organization, evidence and language accuracy, performed beyond checking isolated spelling errors alone.
- Rexurdimento
- A nineteenth-century Galician cultural and literary renewal associated with renewed publication and prestige, not the beginning of all Galician expression.
- Poetic speaker
- The voice presented within a poem, which must be distinguished from the historical author’s identity and personal biography.
- Diglossia
- An unequal distribution of languages or varieties across social functions and prestige, not an intrinsic hierarchy of their expressive capacity.
- Normalization
- The process of supporting broader ordinary social use of a language, distinguishable from establishing its spelling or grammatical conventions.
- Standardization
- Development and use of recognized linguistic conventions, without making regional varieties unreal or their speakers inherently deficient.