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Linguistics Basics
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1. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Dative Movement
Signifier
Bound morphemes
Coded connotations
2. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Maxim of Quantity
Free morphemes
Homonyms
Flouting
3. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Social connotation
Kernel sentence
Intonation
4. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Collocative connotation
Neologism
Phoneme
Perlocutionary Act
5. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Pragmatics
Phonology
Connotation
Morpheme
6. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Denotation
Prefix
Affective connotation
Clipping
7. A word that has died out
Connotation
Archaism
Free morphemes
International Phonetic Alphabet
8. The meaning derived from flouting
Maxim of quality
Implicature
Connotation
Signifier
9. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Compounding
Semantics
Coded connotations
Prefix
10. One who knows many languages
Archaism
Signifier
Transformations
Polyglot
11. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Deixis
Signifier
Clipping
Referent
12. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Borrowing
Denotation
Social connotation
Phonetics
13. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Maxim of Manner
Deictics
Synchronic
Connotation
14. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Phonetics
Social connotation
Backformation
15. A sentence in context
Utterance
Syntax
Prefix
Inflectional morpheme
16. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Semantics
Minimal pair
Language planning
Passive
17. A new word
Three types of articulations
Descriptive
Neologism
Recursion
18. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Diachronic
Semantics
Suffix
Deictics
19. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Idioms
Neologism
Dative Movement
Descriptive
20. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Archaism
Illocutionary Act
Transformations
Passive
21. Meaning components
Acronyms
Perlocutionary Act
Semantic features
Prefix
22. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Coded connotations
Maxim of quality
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Perlocutionary Act
23. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Three types of articulations
Context
Passive
Archaism
24. The meaning of a sign
Presupposition
Prescriptive
Signified
Denotation
25. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Free morphemes
Synchronic
Morpheme
Question
26. The overall meaning of a text
Meaning
Four components of sounds
Coherence
Utterance
27. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Syntax
Coherence
Phonology
Cohesion
28. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Recursion
Four components of sounds
Collocative connotation
Maxim of Quantity
29. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Coherence
Metonymy
Particle hopping
Ambiguity
30. The science that studies language
Semantic features
Linguistics
Prescriptive
Performance
31. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Coherence
Kernel sentence
Neologism
Deictics
32. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Cohesion
Free morphemes
Phoneme
33. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Individual/Restricted connotation
Linguistics
Deixis
Maxim of Manner
34. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Maxim of quality
Individual/Restricted connotation
Signifier
Maxim of quality
35. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Borrowing
Four components of sounds
Linguistics
Adjacency Pair
36. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Flouting
Implicature
Reflected connotation
Prescriptive
37. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Meaning
Calque
Speech Act
Reflected connotation
38. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Blends
Reflected connotation
Passive
Bound morphemes
39. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Universal Grammar
Synchronic
Maxim of Manner
Clipping
40. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Signifier
Backformation
Performance
Shibboleth
41. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Semantics
Collocative connotation
Metonymy
Signifier
42. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Clipping
Pragmatics
Syntax
Adjacency Pair
43. Meaning components
Semantic features
Archaism
Connotation
Illocutionary Act
44. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Calque
Particle hopping
Perlocutionary Act
Adjacency Pair
45. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Presupposition
Metaphor
Coherence
Negation
46. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Deictics
Dative Movement
Illocutionary Act
47. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Sign
Locutionary Act
Derivation
Idioms
48. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Maxim of quality
Maxim of Quantity
Meaning
Lexicon
49. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Recursion
Morphology
Phonology
Blends
50. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Blends
Coherence
Question
Phoneme
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