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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true






2. Deals with how the sounds are organized






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






4. The meaning of a sign






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






6. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance






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






8. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






9. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme






10. Actually saying a word - what you can do






11. The ability to produce language - what you know






12. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)






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






14. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






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






16. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






17. Affix in the middle of a word






18. One who knows many languages






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






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






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






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






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






24. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






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






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






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






28. A sentence in context






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






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






31. Deals with the sounds of a language






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






33. A word that has died out






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






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






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






37. Affix after the root






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






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






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






41. Deals with how sentences are formed






42. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






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






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






45. The rise and fall of sentences






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






47. The meaning of a sign






48. Affix before the root






49. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)






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







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