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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






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






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






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






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






6. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)






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






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






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






10. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






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






12. An utterance produced by a speaker






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






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






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






16. Meaning components






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






18. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






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






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






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






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






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






24. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation






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






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






27. The sequence of sounds that make up a word






28. Affix before the root






29. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)






30. Affix after the root






31. The rise and fall of sentences






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






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






34. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






35. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation






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






37. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)






38. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words






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






40. A new word






41. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme






42. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. The rise and fall of sentences






50. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)