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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Actually saying a word - what you can do






2. A word that has died out






3. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






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






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






6. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance






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






8. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






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






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






11. A sentence in context






12. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)






13. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






14. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme






15. Mental representation of a word






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






17. Affix after the root






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






19. The meaning derived from flouting






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. A new word






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






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






29. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






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






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






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






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






34. The science that studies language






35. The rise and fall of sentences






36. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language






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






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






39. A word that has died out






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






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






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






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






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






45. Affix in the middle of a word






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






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






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






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






50. Deals with the sounds of a language