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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






2. The ability to produce language - what you know






3. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words






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






5. The meaning derived from flouting






6. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)






7. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






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






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






10. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world






11. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






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






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






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






15. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






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






17. The ability to produce language - what you know






18. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






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






20. Affix in the middle of a word






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






22. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






23. Actually saying a word - what you can do






24. The rise and fall of sentences






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






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






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






28. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)






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






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






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






32. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






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






42. A sentence in context






43. The science that studies language






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






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






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






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






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






49. Deals with how the sounds are organized






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







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