Morphology
Be, Have, Do, they support a non-finite main verb.
What is a primary auxillary?
IPA
What is the International Phonetic Alphabet?
Who or what the sentence is about.
What is a subject of a sentence?
Where the meaning is not clear; there can be more than one interpretation of the sentence or phrase.
What is ambiguity?
Those features of speech that are marginal to language. eg. stance, gesture, gaze
What are paralinguistic features?
Morphemes that can stand alone. The core of a word.
What is a root or stem ?
Changes in sound to make them fit more closely with neighbouring sounds. eg. 'wader' for water
What is assimilation?
Part of a sentence but the meaning is usually clear from the context.
What is a sentence fragment?
The emotional implications and associations that a word may carry.
What is connotation?
A common language used between speakers of different linguistic backgrounds.
What is lingua franca?
Substitute for a noun to avoid repetition. (eg. you, she, they)
Waht is a pronoun?
A vowel sound which changes during pronunciation.
What is a diphthong?
A clause which can stand on its own as a sentence.
What is an independent clause?
The study of the origin and history of a word.
What is etymology?
The theory of world Englishes that has 3 concentric circles containing countries reflecting the historical spread of English. ie, an inner, outer and expanding circle.
What are Kachru's circles?
The process of adding a suffx in order to denote smallness or affection. eg, Jacko, kitchenette
What is suffixation?
Stress, pitch, intonation, volume, tempo; they add meaning to spoken words.
What are prosodic features?
joins words or phrases or clauses that are not of equal importance.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
A type of semantic change where the contexts in which a word is used are expanded.
What is broadening?
Varieties of English that are structurally and functionally distinct from each other.
What are world Englishes?
The only ones are 'a' and 'an'. They introduce new material.
What is an indefinite article?
The omission of sounds during speech. eg. 'doin'
What is elision?
A sentence type to express emotion such as suprise or horror.
What is an exclamative sentence?
An area of meaning that is identified by a set of related lexical items.
What is a semantic field?
The approach that describes language behaviour in relation to standards or ideals about how the language 'should' really be.
What is prescriptivism?