Part 2:Yu Flashcards
occurs when lexical items from one language are incorporated into another
Insertion
occurs when structures of two languages are alternated indistinctively both at the grammatical and lexical level
Alternation
refers to the situation where two languages share grammatical structures which can be filled lexically with elements from either language
Congruaent lexicalization
is essentially a language variety or dialect used in communication.
code
t is the process of shifting from one linguistic code (a language or dialect) to another, depending on the social context or conversational setting.
Code switching
People switch languages to include or exclude other people from the conversation.
Directive function
People include the embedded language in order to express some part of their identity.
Expressive function
Someone is unable to express an idea easily in one language and switches to other languages in order to express it more easily.
Referential function
Sometimes a speaker switches languages or repeat something in both languages in order to emphasize it.
Phatic function
Reporting something in the other language, or commenting on something said in the other language.
Metalinguistic function
The speaker says certain words or makes jokes in the embedded language for amusement or humor.
Poetic function
refers to groups of languages that share a common ancestral language. These languages are considered related because they have evolved over time from a single, ancient source. Language families are a fundamental concept in historical linguistics, allowing linguists to trace the historical development and relationships between languages.
Language families
Language isolates are languages that stand alone, with no known linguistic relatives or connections to other languages
These languages exist in isolation, without any apparent historical or genetic links to other languages in their region or beyond.
Language Isolates
n the study of Native American languages, linguist Edward Sapir in the 1920s tried to make things simpler by grouping them into six major language groups. This idea aimed to make research easier but also raised questions about preserving each language’s uniqueness and cultural importance.
New world simplication
macrofamily in linguistics is like a super-extended family of languages, suggesting that various language families could have a very distant common ancestor
Nostratic And macrofamily
is code-switching in which switches occur within a clause or sentence boundary. Switching language in one sentence
Intra-sentenial