DISJUNCT

Disjunct

In linguistics, a disjunct is a type of adverbial adjunct that expresses information that is not considered essential to the sentence it appears in, but which is considered to be the speaker's or writer's attitude towards, or descriptive statement of, the propositional content of the sentence, "expressing, for example, the speaker's degree of truthfulness or his manner of speaking."

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disjunct

Noun

  1. One of multiple propositions, any of which, if true, confirm the validity of another proposition (a disjunction)
  2. Any sentence element that is not fully integrated into the clausal structure of the sentence.
  3. An adverbial that expresses the speaker's or writer's attitude towards, or descriptive statement of, the propositional content of the associated clause or sentence.


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