kolokwium nr 2

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neologism
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new word
etymology
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the study of the origin and history of the word
borrowings (when one language takes words from another)
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the most borrowing comes from: latin, german, greek, french
loan transaltions/calque
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there is a direct translation of the elements of a word into the borrowing language
compounding
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joing of 2 separate word to create 1/ bookcase, doorknob, fingerprint
blending
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the combination of 2 separate words to produce a single form/ we typically have the begging of one word and ending of the other
clipping
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the element of reduction that is noticeable in blending is even more apparent/ word of more than one syllable is reduce to the shorter one
hypocorism
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a particular type of reduction/ a longer word is reduced to a singe syllable then y ot ie is added
backformation
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usually a verb/ television created from word televise
coinage
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the invention and general usage of new terms
eponyms
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new words based on the names of people/places
acronyms
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new word formed from initial latters of a set of other latters/ CD e.g.
derivation
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create word by adding- suffixes, prefixes and infixes
morphology
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the study of forms
morphemes
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a minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function
free morphemes
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can stand by themselves as a single words- new, tour
bound morphemes
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those forms that cannot normally stand alone and are typically attached to another form
bound stems
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we can identify the bound morpheme re- at the beginning, but the elements -ceive, -duce and -peat are not separate word forms and hence cannot be free morphemes.
Lexical morphemes
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The first category is that set of ordinary nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs -> carry the “content” of the messages we convey.
functional morphemes.
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words in the language such as conjunctions, prepositions, articles and pronouns.
Inflectional morphemes
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not used to produce new words in the language, but rather to indicate aspects of the grammatical function of a word.
Grammar
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- The process of describing the structure of phrases and sentences in such a way that we account for all the grammatical sequences in a language and rule out all the ungrammatical sequences
Active voice
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-what is now being done
Grammatical gender
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is based on the type of noun (masculine and feminine) and is not tied to sex.
The prescriptive approach
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This view of grammar as a set of rules for the proper use of a language
The descriptive approach
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Samples of the language used in an attempted to describe the regular structures of that language as it was used, not according to some view of how it should be used.
Structural analysis
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investigate the distribution of forms in a language.
Constituent analysis
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The technique employed in this approach is designed to show how small constituents (or components) go together to form larger constituents
syntax
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if we write rules for the creation of well-formed structures, we must check that those rules, when applied logically, won’t also lead to ill-formed structures.
Syntax
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if we write rules for the creation of well-formed structures, we must check that those rules, when applied logically, won’t also lead to ill-formed structures.
a generative grammar
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small and finite (i.e. limited) set of rules that will be capable of producing a large and potentially infinite (i.e. unlimited) number of well-formed structures
Structural ambiguity
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It has two distinct underlying interpretations that have to be represented differently in deep structure.
Lexical rules
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that specify which words can be used when we rewrite constituents such as PN
Movement rules
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we move one part of the structure to a different position. This process is based on a movement rule.

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