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Linguistics Basics

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. The sequence of sounds that make up a word






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






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






10. Actually saying a word - what you can do






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






12. Meaning components






13. Actually saying a word - what you can do






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






15. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






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






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






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






19. One who knows many languages






20. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words






21. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






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






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






24. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






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






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






27. A single sound. K - d - t - e






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






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






30. Affix before the root






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






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






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






34. The meaning of a sign






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. A single sound. K - d - t - e






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






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






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






48. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)






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






50. Affix in the middle of a word






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