Morphology
What is the smallest unit of meaning in language?
Answer: What is a morpheme?
What is the typical word order in English?
Answer: What is Subject-Verb-Object (SVO)?
What is the study of meaning in language?
Answer: What is semantics?
What is the study of the sound system of a language?
Answer: What is phonology?
Who is the linguist behind Generative Grammar?
Answer: Who is Noam Chomsky?
The word "unhappiness" consists of how many morphemes?
Three morphemes
What is a "head" in a syntactic phrase?
Answer: What is the central word that determines the type of phrase?
What is the term for a word with multiple meanings?
Answer: What is polysemy?
What are the smallest units of sound in a language called?
Answer: What are phonemes?
What is the focus of Structural Grammar?
Answer: What is the structure of language rather than its use or meaning?
Name the process of forming words by adding prefixes and suffixes.
Answer: What is affixation?
What type of clause cannot stand alone as a sentence?
Answer: What is a subordinate clause?
Define "semantic field."
Answer: What is a set of words related by meaning?
What is the term for two words differing by only one sound?
Answer: Minimal pair
Define "Universal Grammar."
Answer: What is the theory that all languages share a common structural basis?
What is the term for a morpheme that cannot stand alone?
Answer: What is a bound morpheme?
In X-bar theory, what does "XP" stand for?
Bonus. You have one minite to find it from google.
Answer: What is a phrasal projection?
What is the difference between connotation and denotation?
Answer: What are emotional/associative meanings vs. literal meanings?
Define "allophone."
Answer: What is a variation of a phoneme that does not change meaning?
What does Dependency Grammar emphasize?
Answer: What is the relationship between words in a sentence?
Differentiate between derivational and inflectional morphemes.
Answer: What are morphemes that change word class or meaning vs. morphemes that modify tense, number, etc.?
Explain the difference between deep structure and surface structure.
Answer: What are the underlying syntactic structures vs. the structures as realized in speech?
Explain the concept of compositionality in semantics.
Answer: What is the principle that the meaning of a whole is determined by the meanings of its parts?
What is the difference between phonetics and phonology?
Answer: What are the physical properties of speech sounds vs. their functional role in a language?
Explain the difference between prescriptive and descriptive grammar.
Answer: What are rules on how language should be used vs. how language is actually used?