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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






2. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






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






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






5. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






6. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme






7. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






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






9. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules






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






11. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance






12. The science that studies language






13. The ability to produce language - what you know






14. A new word






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






16. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance






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






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






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






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






21. Affix before the root






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






23. The vocabulary of a speaker/language






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






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






26. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






27. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts






28. A new word






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






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






31. Meaning components






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






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






34. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words






35. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules






36. The rise and fall of sentences






37. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning






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






39. Deals with the sounds of a language






40. Affix after the root






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






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






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






44. The meaning derived from flouting






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






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






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






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






49. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words






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