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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. An utterance produced by a speaker






2. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






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






4. The rise and fall of sentences






5. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)






6. Affix before the root






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






8. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






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






10. Actually saying a word - what you can do






11. A new word






12. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)






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






14. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true






15. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts






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






17. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






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






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






20. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)






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






22. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts






23. Affix in the middle of a word






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






25. Deals with how sentences are formed






26. The ability to produce language - what you know






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






28. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)






29. The meaning derived from flouting






30. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)






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






32. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)






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






34. A sentence in context






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






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






37. A word that has died out






38. Deals with the sounds of a language






39. A word that has died out






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






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






42. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true






43. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme






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






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






46. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)






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






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






49. The science that studies language






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







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