What is the technical linguistic term for parts of speech?
What is lexical categories
100
What part of speech are these terms:
kingdom, imagination, socialism, and parenthood?
What is a noun
100
What is the study of the meaning in language?
What is semantics
100
Language authorities such as English teachers, editors, and journalists are sometimes referred to as " __________?"
Who are language mavens
100
What is the term for how the English language is spoken, studied, and present throughout the world?
What is World Englishes
200
What is the term for sentences broken down into parts?
What is parsing
200
What kind of class does the term "quickly" belong to?
What is open class
200
What term defines the idea that words somehow meaningfully belong together?
What is lexical fields
200
"___________ is taken to be the variety most widely accepted and understood within an English-speaking country? "(36)
What is standard English
200
What is the term for a time frame when it's possible to learn another language with native-like fluency?
What is the critical period
300
When people regularly use the term "whom," even in incorrect situations, it is an example of....
What is hypercorrection
300
In the sentence:
"We made cookies earlier today."
What kind of verb is "made?"
What is a transitive verb
300
The following sentences are examples of what kind of context?
"John doesn't like milk."
"Milk doesn't like John."
What is linguistic context
300
Which famous dictionary was founded on principles of historical lexicography?
What is the Oxford English Dictionary
300
What can you use to illustrate a word's hierarchical organization?
What is a morphology tree
400
What is the term for words that regularly occur in proximity to each other?
What is a collocate
400
What type of position is the adjective in? Predicative or attributive?
"Vacation makes the students happy."
What is predicative
400
Does the following definition relate to linguistic relativity or linguistic determinism?
"Differences in language create differences in thought" (229).
Linguistic relativity
400
What kind of books deliberately try to regulate language?
What is a usage book/guide
400
What are the six different kinds of conjugations for verbs?
What are tense, number, person, aspect, voice, and mood
500
Al: "And I was like super excited for the weekend."
Laura: "You're so lucky! I spent the weekend like working.
Al: "That's the worst! Did you ever like, get a break?"
The word "like" is being used as a _______?
What is a discourse marker/pragmatic particle
500
In the following sentence, which of the three moods does the verb represent?
"I wish ice cream were healthier."
What is the subjunctive
500
"All personal pronouns "point" to specific people and are markers of _________?" (208)
What is deixis
500
"________" is a body of research often used for studying frequency, real English, register, and collocations.
What is Corpus
500
What are the six main areas of language that linguists study?
What is phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse