Additional Flashcards
ablaut
a change in vowel in a verb conjugation
elide
omit a vowel when combining words or roots
Old English
500-1066 CE
Middle English
1066-1500
Early Modern English
1500-1800
Modern English
1800-present
1066
Norman Conquest - England under French rule
1362
Statue of Pleading - Made English official
etymon
the ancestor of a word
cognate
two words that share an ancestor
Mycenean Greece
1700-1100 BCE
Decipherers of Linear B
Michael Ventris and Alice Kober
Linear B
a writing system used in later Mycenean Greece
Linear A
the precursor of Linear B
Linear B usage
mostly administrative, used for palace affairs
phoneme
the smallest unit of sound capable of carrying meaning
allophone
differences in the pronunciation of phonemes - “p” in “pit” vs “tip”
morpheme
the smallest carrier of meaning
Grimm’s Law
describes a series of consonant shifts that distinguish Germanic languages
Voiceless stops became -
Voiceless fricatives
Voiced stops became -
voiceless stops
Voiced aspirated stops became -
voiced stops
conjugate
give a verb the appropriate inflection
tense
refers to the time when an action or state happens
indicative mood
used to state things
subjunctive mood
used to refer to things that are removed from reality
imperative mood
used to give orders
infinitive form
the base form of a verb, can be used with or without “to”
participle
verb form that is used as an adjective
strong conjugation
verb vowels change (ablaut)
weak conjugation
verb endings change
metathesis
when two sounds or syllables in a word switch places
Descriptive dictionary
A dictionary that aims to describe how words are used
Prescriptive dictionary
A dictionary that sets guidelines for how words should be used
Orthographic words
A series of letters bounded by spaces
Phonetic word
A sequence of sounds
Lexeme (1)
Any meaningful speech form in the vocabulary of a language
Lexeme (2)
The group of inflections of one word
Lemma
The word that a lexeme (2) is listed under in a dictionary
Homonyms
Two lexemes with the same pronunciation and spelling
Homographs
Two lexemes with the same spelling but different pronunciations
Homophones
Two lexemes with different spellings but the same pronunciation
Compound
A lexeme made of two words, can be open (with a space between the lexemes) or closed (no space between lexemes)
Phrasal lexemes
Multi-word lexemes which have a meaning that is not derivable from the independent meanings of their components
Denotation
What a word refers to, the defenition
Connotation
The associations of a word
Hypernym
A word that refers to a set of other words
Hyponym
A word with a more specific meaning than another general term also applied to it