Liguistics Flashcards
What eleven-letter adjective is used before the word “mark” to refer to any of several notations above or below a letter in word to indicate pronunciation?
diacritical
The last syllable of a word is called the …
ultima
What tense are these sentences in?
I have to write a play.
She will have to return back home eventually.
Perfect Tense
I don’t know, John.
Of what grammatical case, dealing with John, is present in this sentence?
Vocative Case
which is when a noun, or noun phrase, identifies a person that is being addressed
What is a morpheme?
any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts
in - com - ing
Who was considered the ‘Father of Linguistics’, a Swiss guy who authored the seminal book entitled ‘Course in General Linguistics’?
Ferdinand de Saussure.
Who created the Cooperation Principle and the Conversational Maxims?
Herbert Paul Grice.
“Make your conversational contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged.”
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- Quality: Try to make your contribution one that is true.
Do not say what you believe to be false.
Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence. - Quantity
Make your contribution as informative as is required for the current purposes of the exchange.
Do not make your contribution more informative than is required. - Relation: Be relevant.
4. Manner: Be perspicuous. Avoid obscurity of expression. Avoid ambiguity. Be brief (avoid unnecessary prolixity). Be orderly.
What is defined as ‘the study of sentence structure’?
Syntax
What is this sentence an example of?
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
a pangram
a sentence or phrase that contains all of the letters of the alphabet
What is a spoonerism?
a verbal error in which a speaker accidentally transposes the initial sounds or letters of two or more words, often to humorous effect
Was named after William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), who quite often twisted his tongue.
Ex: You have hissed the mystery lectures, instead of you have missed the history
lectures
Ex: “The Lord is a shoving leopard” instead of “The Lord is a loving shepherd.”
What is this symbol called?
â, ê, î, ô, û
A circumflex
What is this symbol called?
à, è, ì, ò, ù
Grave accent
What is this symbol called?
á, é, í, ó, ú
An acute accent
What is this symbol called?
ñ, ã, õ
tilde
What is this symbol called?
ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, ÿ
An umlaut
