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






3. A new word






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






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






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






7. Deals with how the sounds are organized






8. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






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






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






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






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






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






14. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation






15. The overall meaning of a text






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






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






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






19. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)






20. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






21. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






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






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






24. The science that studies language






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






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






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






28. The science that studies language






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






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






31. The vocabulary of a speaker/language






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






33. The meaning of a sign






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






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






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






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






38. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






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






40. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






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






42. An utterance produced by a speaker






43. The overall meaning of a text






44. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)






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






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






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






48. Meaning components






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






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






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