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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for






2. Meaning components






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






4. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme






5. One who knows many languages






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






7. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme






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






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






10. Actually saying a word - what you can do






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






12. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






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






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






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






16. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






17. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






18. The rise and fall of sentences






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






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






21. One who knows many languages






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






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






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






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






26. Affix after the root






27. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






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






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






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






31. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






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






33. The meaning derived from flouting






34. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






35. An utterance produced by a speaker






36. The meaning of a sign






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. The meaning of a sign






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






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






46. Affix in the middle of a word






47. The sequence of sounds that make up a word






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






49. A word that has died out






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