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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words






2. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning






3. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation






4. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






5. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that






6. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)






7. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






8. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only






9. A sentence in context






10. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)






11. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)






12. Deals with how sentences are formed






13. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)






14. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind






15. The meaning of a sign






16. The sequence of sounds that make up a word






17. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives






18. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly






19. The rise and fall of sentences






20. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)






21. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)






22. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history






23. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)






24. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)






25. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality






26. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence






27. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)






28. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning






29. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc






30. The vocabulary of a speaker/language






31. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)






32. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that






33. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning






34. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)






35. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






36. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format






37. An utterance produced by a speaker






38. The sequence of sounds that make up a word






39. A sentence in context






40. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only






41. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world






42. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)






43. Affix after the root






44. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind






45. Deals with how the sounds are organized






46. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words






47. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance






48. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)






49. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words






50. Deals with how sentences are formed






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