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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. A new word






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






3. Affix in the middle of a word






4. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






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






6. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)






7. Affix in the middle of a word






8. Mental representation of a word






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






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






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






12. Meaning components






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






14. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






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






16. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance






17. Deals with how the sounds are organized






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






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






20. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






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






22. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)






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






24. The science that studies language






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






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






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






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






29. The science that studies language






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






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






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






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






34. The meaning derived from flouting






35. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)






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






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






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






39. Affix after the root






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






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






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






43. The meaning derived from flouting






44. The meaning of a sign






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






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






47. Deals with how the sounds are organized






48. Meaning components






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






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







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