ARBITRARINESS & CONVENTION
The lack of natural connection between a word’s form and its meaning
What is arbitrariness ?
Type of items that express concrete meaning.
What are lexical items?
A word made by adding a suffix.
What is a derivative?
A word that has multiple related meanings.
Words with similar meanings.
What are synonyms?
It is a social factor that prevents us to make a word mean anything we like
What is social convention?
The following are examples of this: this, that, these, those.
What are grammatical items?
A word formed from two simple words.
What is a compound?
Having two unrelated meanings but sharing the same form
What is homonymy?
quiet and loud is an example of...
What are antonyms?
Words meaning do not resemble their sounds and/or spelling, except for…
What are onomatopoeic words?
Grammatical items are described as this because they hold phrases and sentences together.
What is the cement of language?
It is the suffix that tyically mean a person who performs the action.
The following is an example of:
light (not dark)
light (not heavy)
What is homonymy?
The semantic relation between dog and collie.
What is hyponymy?
A modification of form made to a verb, noun, etc. which serves to indicate differences of tense, aspect, number.
What is inflectional form?
Lexical items have this characteristic,which their word-forms don't have.
What is constant?
They are often less arbitrary than simple words because their meaning relates systematically to their parts.
What are compounds?
Polysemy is important to _________ because it allows reuse of words instead of constantly creating new ones.
What is language economy?
teacher and student is an example of
What is reciprocal antonym?
Write, wrote, and written are...
What are different forms?
They contain multiple morphemes whereas simple words consist of one meaningful unit.
What are complex words?
Synonymy is not always about entire words but about...
What are specific senses?