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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






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






3. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)






4. Affix after the root






5. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for






6. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes






7. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings






8. Deals with how sentences are formed






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






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






11. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone






12. A new word






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






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






15. The overall meaning of a text






16. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)






17. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)






18. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






19. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)






20. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'






21. Deals with how the sounds are organized






22. A word that has died out






23. The ability to produce language - what you know






24. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






25. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






26. Affix in the middle of a word






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






28. A sentence in context






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






30. A new word






31. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






32. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell






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






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






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






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






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






38. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)






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






40. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






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






42. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)






43. The vocabulary of a speaker/language






44. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word






45. One who knows many languages






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






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






48. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words






49. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)






50. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word






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