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Linguistical Terms

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Last updated: December 18, 2016
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First submittedDecember 18, 2016
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green/greener (grammatical variant)
Inflection
how a verb changes to show a different person, tense, number or mood (I, you sg, he/she/it)
Conjugation
The inflection of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, to indicate number (at least singular and plural), case (nominative or subjective, genitive or possessive, etc.), and gender. (-s)
Declension
The use of taking two morphemes to make a new word ie airport or sellout
Compounding
The creation of a new word form an already used word in a differnt word form ie Down ADV > Down V
Conversion
Easy peasy
Reduplication
Mouse to mice
Abault
/s/ is used in many places to indicate plural whereas /en/ is not so frequent
Productivity
Sheep, Chinese, Series
Zero plurals
Wisdom
Abstract singular noun
Traffic
Mass noun
Trousers or scissors
Pairs
Clothes, odds
Sets
Tooth - teeth
Mutated plural
Relisations of the same morpheme
Allomorphs
The meaning of words
Semantics
Building blocks of words
Morphemes
Pig and Big
Parallel
Clark Kent and Superman (th) and (t)
Complementary
Japanese (r) (l)
Free variation
Meaning you can't predict and must be learned
Lexical item
Just a word
Orthographic word
Set of sounds that represent the same thign
Phoneme
Kick the bucket
Idiom
Tortilla, Cliche
Loanwords
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Derived from a name
Eponyms
Brunch and sci fi
Blends
Editor to edit
Back formation
Third, final, left
Non-scalar adjectives
Swearword
Endocentric
Downmarket
Exocentric
Creates a new word
Derivation
high morpheme:word
Synthetic
Low morpheme:word
Analytic
High exponent:mopoheme eg 'were' is 3 components(To Be, Past tense, Pl)
Fusional
Low exponent:morpheme
Agglutantive
The symbols that are easy to represent iconically
Rebus Principle
Combine two characters, one to suggest meaning and one to suggest sound
Chinese way
Consonant clusters
Alphabetic Principle
Forms which have common sematic distinctiveness and an identical phonemic form in all their occurances constitute a single morpheme
Nida's Principle
Test to see if two things are in parallel distribution
Minimal Pair Test
MODAL - To be, DO - support, BE - passive (was sung), progressive (is singing), HAVE - perfect (has sung)
Auxillary Verbs
Who/What did X?
Consituent Test
It- the form to be - X - that/who - Y
Cleft sentences
Putting constituent in first position to change emphasis
Dislocation
Can be entirely replaced
Consituent
What a sentence is about
Subject
What you say about the subject
Predicate
Expressed via a preposition
Indirect object
Needs more words after the verb
Transitive verb
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4 Comments
Wilbur
+2
Level 44
Dec 20, 2016
Ok so this is a bit beyond my linguistics knowledge but I think it needs proof reading as there a few basic typos needing sorting out. Are they even called linguistically terms? Not linguistic terms? Or terms used in linguistics?
HeinrichsshcirnieH
+2
Level 39
Sep 16, 2018
I know a lot of the terms found in the answers, but even so there is no reasonable chance of getting anything right. For just one example, how is anyone supposed to know that the answer to "Swearword" is "endocentric", as opposed to "expletive" or "compound" or "disyllabic", or even that you mean for "swearword" to serve as an example of something?
Aloha19
+2
Level 51
Jun 11, 2019
Please - it's "ablaut", not "abault"!
Aloha19
+3
Level 51
Jun 11, 2019
And I've found a few more typos. Please correct them!
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