Morphology
Another word for a dictionary
What is a lexicon?
Linguists use this to mark an ungrammatical sentence.
What is an asterisk? *
A clear and precise description of how people use a word.
What is a definition?
The four assumptions pragmaticists make about communication.
What are Quality, Quantity, Relevance, and Manner?
How an individual's speech changes depending on who they're speaking with.
What is code switching?
A morpheme that can't stand by itself.
What is a bound morpheme?
What is an idiolect?
The theory proposed by Eleanor Rosch.
An example of a time when words and context don't match for an intentional effect.
What is sarcasm?
Who makes decisions on national languages and style guides.
Who are people in power?
An affix that goes after a word.
What is a suffix?
How linguists represent the structures of sentences.
What is a Tree Structure Diagram?
A sequence of the same sounds that can have multiple meanings.
What is Polysemy?
Added qualifiers and caveats in communication.
What are hedges?
Three demographic factors that influence what people sound like.
What are (3) education, class, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality?
When a language replaces a work completely instead of using affixes.
What is suppletion?
The two parts of an English sentence.
What is a verb phrase and a noun phrase?
Little words that help a sentence fit together.
What are function words?
How people will work to infer meaning when words don't make sense on a literal level.
What is the Cooperative Principal?
Mapping out regional variations in language.
What is Dialectology?
An affix that goes around a word. Does not exist in English.
What is a circumfix?
Looking at words that can be moved together as a group.
What is a cleft test?
A broad categorical word.
What is a hypernym?
Short words used in some languages (like Japanese) for politeness.
What are particles?
What indicates an action that a person usually does in African American English.
What is the habitual be?