Deponent vs Informant - What's the difference?
deponent | informant |
Having passive form (that is, conjugating like the passive voice), but an active meaning. (Such verbs, originally reflexive, are considered to have laid aside their passive meanings.)
(legal) A witness; especially one who gives information under oath, in a deposition concerning facts known to him or her.
(grammar) A verb.
One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
(linguistics) A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.
* 1977 , A. E. Kibrik, The methodology of field investigations in linguistics
* 2003 , Sergei Nirenburg, H. L. Somers, Yorick Wilks, Readings in machine translation (page 116)
As nouns the difference between deponent and informant
is that deponent is a witness; especially one who gives information under oath, in a deposition concerning facts known to him or her while informant is one who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.As an adjective deponent
is having passive form (that is, conjugating like the passive voice), but an active meaning. (Such verbs, originally reflexive, are considered to have laid aside their passive meanings..deponent
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(en noun)See also
* affiant * de bene esse ----informant
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(wikipedia informant)Noun
(en noun)- The only material the linguist has to begin with are the informant' s grammatical utterances in the target language pronounced arbitrarily in a natural or assigned communicative situation or stimulated artificially by the investigator.
- The informant learns his language by formal training and, more importantly, by constant exposure to its use. He cannot repeat to the linguist what he has never seen or heard.
