The most famous language of the Italic language family.
What is Latin?
Now known more for political work, this linguist came up with the concept of universal grammar.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
It is an Utalic language spoken in the Carpathian basin.
What is Hungarian?
It is a characteristic of verbs used to describe whether a verb is active or passive.
What is voice?
They are sounds that are articulated without strictures in the vocal tract and they can be the nucelus of a syllable.
What are vowels?
This is a recently coined linguistic expression.
What is a neologism?
It is the module of the grammar that deals with meaning.
What is semantics?
It is a grammatical category that, in some languages, is morphologically marked as feminine, masculine or neutral.
What is grammatical gender?
It is the subfield that deals with how syntactic constituents are ordered crosslinguistically.
What is word order typology?
It is one of the most ancient Indo-European languages and it was used to write many classic texts in a South Asian region.
What is Sanskrit?
Sounds made with air passing through the nose.
What are nasals?
This is a German term used to describe a linguistic union.
What is Sprachbund?
A term employed to describe linguistic change through time.
What is diachronic?
He is every sociolinguist's favourite Bill.
Who is William Labov?
This language is agglutinative and it is spoken in Anatolia.
What is Turkish?
It is the aspect of language concerned with suprasegmentals.
What is prosody?
They are languages that convey meanings through a codified system involving a visual-manual modality.
What are sign languages?
An essential notion in structural linguistics which denies any necessary relationship between linguistic signs and their referents.
What is arbitrariness?
The language which is used to discuss language.
What is metalanguage?
The transfer of an element of one word class into another without any formal alteration.
What is zero derivation?
A variety of a language which is typical of a certain class.
What is sociolect?
The indigenous language or dialect of a community.
What is vernacular?
One of the main schools of thought in 20th century psychology which maintains that language acquisition proceeds by imitation.
What is behaviourism?
Any structured and principled collection of data from a particular language, which has been compiled for the purpose of subsequent analysis.
What is corpus?
This is a historical process in language which refers to a change in status from lexical to grammatical for certain elements, frequently due to semantic bleaching.
What is grammaticalization?