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1. What is language? ―Language is system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication. It is a system, since linguistic elements are arranged systematically, rather than randomly. Arbitrary, in the sense that there is usually no intrinsic connection between a work (like ―book‖) and the object it refers to. This explains and is explained by the fact that different languages have different ―books‖: ―book‖ in English, ―livre‖ in French, ―shu‖ in Chinese. It is symbolic, because words are associated with objects, actions, ideas etc. by nothing but convention. Namely, people use the sounds or vocal forms to symbolize what they wish to refer to. It is vocal, because sound or speech is the primary medium for all human languages. Writing systems came much later than the spoken forms. The fact that small children learn and can only learn to speak (and listen) before they write (and read) also indicates that language is primarily vocal, rather than written. The term ―human‖ in the definition is mean t to specify that language is human specific

What are design features of language? ―Design features‖ here refer to the defining properties of human language that tell the difference between human language and any system of animal communication. They are arbitrariness, duality, productivity, displacement, cultural transmission and interchangeability 3

What is arbitrariness? By ―arbitrariness‖, we mean there is no logical connection between meanings and sounds. A dog might be a pig if only the first person ogroup of persons had used it for a pig. Language is therefore largely arbitrary. But language is not absolutely seem to be some sound-meaning association, if we think of echo words, like ―bang‖, ―crash‖, ―roar‖, which are motivated in a certain sense. Secondly, some compounds (words compounded to be one word) are not entirely arbitrary either. ―Type‖ and ―write‖ are opaque or unmotivated words, while ―type-writer‖ is less so, or more transparent or motivated than the words that make it. So we can say ―arbitrariness‖ is a matter of degree

What is duality? Linguists refer ―duality‖ (of structure) to the fact that in all languages so far investigated, one finds two levels of structure or patterning. At the first, higher level, language is analyzed in terms of combinations of meaningful units (such as morphemes, words etc.); at the second, lower level, it is seen as a sequence of segments which lack any meaning in themselves, but which combine to form units of meaning. According to Hu Zhanglin et al., language is a system of two sets of structures, one of sounds and the other of meaning. This is important for the workings of language. A small number of semantic units (words), and these units of meaning can be arranged and rearranged into an infinite number of sentences (note that we have dictionaries of words, but no dictionary of sentences!). Duality makes it possible for a person to talk about anything within his knowledge. No animal communication system enjoys this duality

What is productivity? Productivity refers to the ability to the ability to construct and understand an indefinitely large number of sentences in one‘s native language, including those that has never heard before, but that are appropriate to thespeaking situation. No one has ever said or heard ―A red-eyed elephant is dancing on the small hotel bed with an African gibbon‖, but he can say it when necessary, and he can understand it in right register. Different from artistic creativity, though, productivity never goe s outside the language, thus also called ―rule-bound creativity‖ (by

N.Chomsky)

What is displacement? ―Displacement‖, as one of the design features of the human language, refers to the fact that one can talk about things that are not present, as easily as he does things present. In other words, one can refer to real and unreal things, things of the past, of the present, of the future. Language itself can be talked about too. When a man, for example, is crying to a woman, about something, it might be something that had occurred, or something that is occurring, or something that is to occur. When a dog is barking, however, you can decide it is barking for something or at someone that exists now and there. It couldn‘t be bow-wowing sorrowfully for a bo ne to be lost. The bee‘s system, nonetheless, has a small share of ―displacement‖, but it is an unspeakable tiny share

What is cultural transmission? This means that language is not biologically transmitted from generation to generation, but that the details of the linguistic system must be learned anew by each speaker. It is true that the capacity for language in human beings (N. Chomsky called it ―language acquisition device‖, or LAD) has a genetic basis, but the particular language a person lear ns to speak is a cultural one other than a genetic one like the dog‘s barking system. If a human being is brought up in isolation he cannot acquire language. The Wolf Child reared by the pack of wolves turned out to speak the wolf‘s roaring ―tongue‖ when h ewas saved. He learned thereafter, with no small difficulty, the ABC of a certain human language

What is interchangeability? Interchangeability means that any human being can be both a producer and a receiver of messages. Though some people suggest that there is sex differentiation in the actual language use, in other words, men and women may say different things, yet in principle there is no sound, or word or sentence that a man can utter and a woman cannot, or vice versa. On the other hand, a person can be the speaker while the other person is the listener and as the turn moves on to the listener, he can be the speaker and the first speaker is to listen. It is turn-taking that makes social communication possible and acceptable. Some male birds, however, utter some calls which females do not (or cannot). When a dog barks, all the neighboring dogs bark. Then people around can hardly tell which dog (dogs) is (are) ―speaking‖ and which listening 9

Why do linguists say language is human specific? First of all, human language has six ―design features‖ which animal communication systems do not have, at least not in the true sense of them.

Secondly, linguists have done a lot trying to teach animals such as chimpanzees to speak a human language but have achieved nothing inspiring. Washoe, a female chimpanzee, was brought up like a human child by Beatnice and Alan Gardner. She was taught ―American sign Language‖, and learned a little that made the teachers happy but did mot make the linguistics circle happy, for few believed in teaching chimpanzees. Thirdly, a human child reared among animals cannot speak a human language, not even when he is taken back andaught to do so

people learn about the world, and a tool by which people learn about the world, and a tool by which people create art . M .A. K. Halliday, representative of the London school, recognizes three ―Macro-Functions‖: ideational, interpersonal and textual. 11

What is the phatic function? The ―phatic function‖ refer s to language being used for setting up a certain atmosphere or maintaining social contacts(rather than for exchanging information or ideas). Greetings, farewells, and comments on the weather in English and on clothing in Chinese all serve this function. M uch of the phatic language (e.g. ―How are you?‖ ―Fine, thanks.‖) is insincere if taken literally, but it is important. If you don't say ―Hello‖ to a friend you meet, or if you don‘t answer his ―Hi‖, you ruin your friendship

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What is the directive function? The ―directive function‖ means that language may be used to get the hearer to do something. Most imperative sentences perform this function, e. g., ―Tell me the result when you finish.‖ Other syntactic structures or sent ences of other sorts can, according to J. Austin and J. Searle‘s ―Indirect speech act theory‖ at least, serve the purpose of direction too, e.g., ―If I were you, I would have blushed to the bottom of my ears!‖ 13

What is the informative function? La nguage serves an ―informational function‖ when used to tell something, characterized baught to do so

What functions does language have? Language has at least seven functions: phatic, directive, Informative, interrogative, expressive, evocative and performative. According to Wang Gang (1988,p.11), language has three main functions: a tool of communication, a tool whereby people learn about the world, and a tool by which people learn about the world, and a tool by which people create art . M .A. K. Halliday, representative of the London school, recognizes three ―Macro-Functions‖: ideational, interpersonal and textual. 11

What is the phatic function? The ―phatic function‖ refers to language being used for setting up a certain atmosphere or maintaining social contacts(rather than for exchanging

information or ideas). Greetings, farewells, and comments on the weather in English and on clothing in Chinese all serve this function. Much of the phatic language (e.g. ―How are you?‖ ―Fine, thanks.‖) is insincere if taken literally, but it is important. If you don't say ―Hello‖ to a friend you meet, or if you don‘t answer his ―Hi‖, you ruin your friendship

What is the directive function? The ―directive function‖ means that language may be used to get the hearer to do something. Most imperative sentences perform this function, e. g., ―Tell me the result when you finish.‖ Other syntactic structures or sentences of other sorts can, according to J. Austin and J. Searle‘s ―Indirect speech act theory‖ at least, serve the purpose of direction too, e.g., ―If I were you, I would have blushed to the bottom of my ears!‖ 13

What is the informative function? Language serves an ―informational function‖ when used to tell something, characterized bthe use of declarative sentences. Informative statements are often labelled as true (truth) or false (falsehood). According to P. Grice‘s ―Cooperative Principle‖, one ought not to violate the ―Maxim of Quality‖, when he is informing at all

What is the interrogative function? When language is used to obtain information, it serves an ―interrogative function‖. This includes all questions that expect replies, statements, imperatives etc., according to the ―indirect speech act theory‖, may have this function as well, e.g., ―I‘d like to know you better.‖ This may bring forth a lot of personal information. Note that rhetorical questions make an exception, since they demand no answer, at least not the reader‘s/listener‘s answer

What is the expressive functio n? The ―expressive function‖ is the use of language to reveal something about the feelings or attitudes of the speaker. Subconscious emotional ejaculations are good examples, like ―Good heavens!‖ ―My God!‖ Sentences like ―I‘m sorry about the delay‖ can serve as good examples too, though in a subtle way. While language is used for the informative function to pass judgment on the truth or falsehood of statements, language used for the expressive function evaluates, appraises or asserts the speaker‘s own attit udes

What is the evocative function? The ―evocative function‖ is the use of language to create certain feelings in the hearer. Its aim is , for example, to amuse, startle, antagonize, soothe, worry or please. Jokes(not practical jokes, though) are supposed to amuse or entertain the listener; advertising to urge customers to purchase certain commodities; propaganda to influence public opinion. Obviously, the expressive and the evocative functions often go together, i.e., you may express, for example, your personal feelings about a political issue but end up by evoking the same feeling in, or imposing it on, your

listener. That‘s also the case with the other way round

What is the performative function? This means people speak to ―do things‖ or perform actions. On certain occasions the utterance itself as an action is more important than what words or sounds constitute the uttered sentence. The judge‘s imprisonment sentence, the president‘s war or independence declaration, etc., are performatives

What is linguistics? ―Linguistics‖ is the scientific study of language. It studies not just one language of any one society, but the language of all human beings. A linguist, though, does not have to know and use a large number of languages, but to investigate how each language is constructed. He is also concerned with how a language varies from dialect to dialect, from class to class, how it changes from century to century, how children acquire their mother tongue, and perhaps how a person learns or should learn a foreign language. In short, linguistics studies the general principles whereupon all human languages are constructed and operate as systems of communication in their societies or communities

What makes linguistics a science? Since linguistics is the scientific study of language, it ought to base itself upon the systematic, investigation of language data which aims at discovering the true nature of language and its underlying system. To make sense of the data, a linguist usually hasconceived some hypotheses about the language structure, to be checked against the observed or observable facts. In order to make his analysis scientific, a linguist is usually guided by four principles: exhaustiveness, consistency, and objectivity. Exhaustiveness means he should gather

all the materials relevant to the study and give them an adequate explanation, in spite of the complicatedness. He is to leave no linguistic ―stone‖ unturned. Consistency means there should be no contradiction between different parts of the total statement. Economy means a linguist should pursue brevity in the analysis when it is possible. Objectivity implies that since some people may be subjective in the study, a linguist should be (or sound at least) objective, matter-of-face, faithful to reality, so that his work constitutes part of the linguistics research

What are the major branches of linguistics? The study of language as a whole is often called general linguistics. But a linguist sometimes is able to deal with only one aspect of language at a time, thus the arise of various branches: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics etc

What are synchronic and diachronic studies? The description of a language at some point of time (as if it stopped developing) is a synchrony study (synchrony). The description of a language as

it changes through time is a diachronic study (diachronic). An essay entitled ―On the Use of THE‖, for example, may be synchronic, if the author does not recall the past of THE, and it may also be diachronic if he claims to cover a large range or period of time wherein THE has undergonetremendous alteration

What is speech and what is writing? No one needs the repetition of the general principle of linguistic analysis, namely, the primacy of speech over writing. Speech is primary, because it existed long long before writing systems came into being. Genetically children learn to speak before learning to write. Secondly, written forms just represent in this way or that the speech sounds: individual sounds, as in English and French as in Japanese. In contrast to speech, spoken form of language, writing as written codes, gives language new scope and use that speech does not have. Firstly, messages can be carried through space so that people can write to each other. Secondly, messages can be carried through time thereby, so that people of our time can be carried through time thereby, so that people of our time can read Beowulf, Samuel Johnson, and Edgar A. Poe. Thirdly, oral messages are readily subject to distortion, either intentional or unintentional, while written messages allow and encourage repeated unalterable reading. Most modern linguistic analysis is focused on speech, different from grammarians of the last century and theretofore https://www.wendangku.net/doc/523304309.html,

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What are the differences between the descriptive and the prescriptive approaches? A linguistic study is ―descriptive‖ if it only describes and analyses the facts of language, and ―prescriptive‖ if it tries to lay down rules for ―correct‖ language behavior. Linguistic studies before this century were largely prescriptive because many early grammars were largely prescript ive because many early grammars were based on ―high‖ (literary or religious) written records. Modern linguistics is mostly descriptive, however. It (the latter) believes that whatever

occurs in natural speech (hesitation, incomplete utterance, misunderstanding, etc.) should be described in the analysis, and not be marked as incorrect, abnormal, corrupt, or lousy. These, with changes in vocabulary and structures, need to be explained also

What is the difference between langue and parole? F. de Sauss ure refers ―langue‖ to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community and refers ―parole‖ to the actual or actualized language, or the realization of langue. Langue is abstract, parole specific to the speaking situation; langue not actually spoken by an individual, parole always a naturally occurring event; langue relatively stable and systematic, parole is a mass of confused facts, thus not suitable for systematic investigation. What a linguist ought to do, according to Saussure, is to abstract langue from instances of parole, i.e. to discover the regularities governing all instances of parole and make than the subject of linguistics. The langue-parole distinction is of great importance, which casts great influence on later linguists

What is the difference between competence and performance? According to N. Chomsky, ―competence‖ is the ideal language user‘s knowledge of the rules of his language, and ―performance‖ is the actual

realization of this knowledge in utterances. The former enables a speaker to produce and understand an indefinite number of sentences and to recognize grammatical mistakes and ambiguities. A speaker‘s competence is stable while his performance is often influenced by psychological and social fac tors. So a speaker‘s performance does not always match or equal his supposed competence. Chomsky believes that linguists ought to study competence, rather thanperformance. In other words, they should discover what an ideal speaker knows of his native langu age. Chomsky‘s competence-performance distinction is not exactly the same as, though similar to, F. de Saussure‘s langue-parole distinction. Langue is a social product, and a set of conventions for a community, while competence is deemed as a property of the mind of each individual. Sussure looks at language more from a sociological or sociolinguistic point of view than N. Chomsky since the latter deals with his issues psychologically or psycholinguistically

What is linguistic potential? What is actual linguistic behaviour? These two terms, or the potential-behavior distinction, were made by M. A. K. Halliday in the 1960s, from a functional point of view. There is a wide range of things a speaker can do in his culture, and similarly there are many things he can say, for example, to many people, on many topics. What he actually says (i.e. his ―actual linguistic behavior‖) on a certain occasion to a certain person is what he has chosen from many possible injustice items, each of which he could have said (linguistic potential) 27

In what way do language, competence and linguistic potential agree? In what way do they differ? And their counterparts? Langue, competence and linguistic potential have some similar features, but they are innately different. Langue is a social product, and a set of speaking conventions; competence is a property or attribute of each ideal speaker‘s mind; linguistic potential is all the linguistic corpus or repertoire available from which the speaker chooses items for the actual utterance situation. In other words, langue is invisible but reliable abstract system. Competence means ―knowing‖, and linguisticpotential a set of possibilities for ―doing‖ or ―performing actions‖. They are similar in that they all refer to the consta nt underlying the

utterances that constitute what Saussure, Chomsky and Halliday respectively called parole, performance and actual linguistic behavior. Parole, performance and actual linguistic behavior enjoy more similarities than differences

Wh at is phonetics? ―Phonetics‖ is the science which studies the characteristics of human sound-making, especially those sounds used in speech, and provides methods for their description, classification and transcription, speech sounds may be studied in different ways, thus by three different branches of phonetics. (1) Articulatory phonetics; the branch of phonetics that examines the way in which a speech sound is produced to discover which vocal organs are involved and how they coordinate in the process. (2) Auditory phonetics, the branch of phonetic research from the hearer‘s point of view, looking into the impression which a speech sound makes on the hearer as mediated by the ear, the auditory nerve and the brain. (3) Acoustic phonetics: the study of the physical properties of speech sounds, as transmitted between mouth and ear. Most phoneticians, however, are interested in articulatory phonetics.

How are the vocal organs formed? The vocal organs or speech organs, are organs of the human body whose secondary use is in the production of speech sounds. The vocal organs can be considered as consisting of three parts; the initiator of the air-stream, the producer of voice and the resonating cavities

What is place of articulation? It refers to the place in the mouth where, fo example, the obstruction occurs, resulting in the utterance of a consonant. Whatever sound is pronounced, at least some vocal organs will get involved, e.g. lips, hard palate etc., so a consonant may be one of the following (1) bilabial: [p, b, m]; (2) ]; (4) alveolar:[t, d, l, n, s, z]; (5)

labiodental: [f, v]; (3) dental:[ retroflex; (6) palato-alveolar:[ ]; (7) palatal:[j]; (8) velar[ k, g]; (9) uvular; (10) glottal:[h]. Some sounds involve the simultaneous use of two places of articulation. For example, the English [w] has both an approximation of the two lips and that two lips and that of the tongue and the soft palate, and may be termed ―labial-velar‖

What is the manner of articulation? The ―manner of articulation‖ literally meansthe way a sound is articulated. At a given place of articulation, the airstream may be obstructed in various ways, resulting in various manners of articulation, are the following: (1) plosive:[p, b, t, d, k, g]; (2) nasal:[m, n,]; (3) trill; (4) tap or flap; (5) lateral:[l]; (6) fricative:[f, v, s, z]; (7) approximant:[w, j];

(8) affricate:[ ]

What is IPA? When did it come into being ? The IPA, abbreviation of ―International Phonetic Alphabet‖, is a compromise system m aking use of symbols of all sources, including diacritics indicating length, stress and intonation, indicating phonetic variation. Ever since it was developed in 1888, IPA has undergone a number of revisions

What is narrow transcription and what is broad transcription? In handbook of phonetics,

Henry Sweet made a distinction between ―narrow‖ and ―broad‖ transcriptions, which he called ―Narrow Romic‖. The former was meant to symbolize all the possible speech sounds, including even the most minute shades of pronunciation while Broad Romic or transcription was intended to indicate only those sounds capable of distinguishing one word from another in a given language https://www.wendangku.net/doc/523304309.html,

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What is phonology? What is differ ence between phonetics and phonology? ―Phonology‖ is the study of sound systems- the invention of distinctive speech sounds that occur in a language and the patterns wherein they fall. Minimal pair, phonemes, allophones, free variation, complementary distribution, etc., are all to be investigated by a phonologist. Phonetics is the branch of linguistics studying the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and transcription. A phonetist is mainly interested in the physical properties of the speech sounds, whereas a phonologist studies what he believes are meaningful sounds related with their semantic features, morphological features, and the way they are conceived and printed in the depth of the mind phonological knowledge permits a speaker to produce sounds which from meaningful utterances, to recognize a foreign ―accent‖, to make up new words, to add the appropriate phonetic segments to from plurals and past tenses, to know what is and what is not a sound i n one‘s language

What is a phone? What is a phoneme? What is an allophone? A ―phone‖ is a phonetic unit or segment. The speech sounds we hear and produce during linguistic communication are all phones. When we hear the following words pronounced: [pit], [tip], [spit], etc., the similar phones we have heard are [p] for one thing, and three different [p]s, readily making possible the ―narrow transcription or diacritics‖. Phones may and may not distinguish meaning. A ―phoneme‖ is a phonological unit; it is a unit that is of distinctive value. As an abstract unit, a phoneme is not any particular sound, but rather it is represented or realized by a certain phone in a certain phonetic context. For example, the phoneme[p] is represented differently in [pit], [tip] and [spit]. The phones representing a phoneme are called its ―allophones‖, i.e., the different (i.e., phones) but do not make one word so phonetically different as to create a new word or a new meaning thereof. So the different [p] s in the above words are the allophones of the same phoneme [p]. How a phoneme is represented by a phone, or which allophone is to be used, is determined by the phonetic context in which it occurs. But the choice of an allophone is not random. In most cases it is rule-governed; these rules are to be found out by aphoneme? What is an allophone? A ―phone‖ is a phonetic unit or segment. The speech sounds we hear and produce during linguistic communication are all phones. When we hear the following words pronounced: [pit], [tip], [spit], etc., the similar phones we have heard are [p] for one thing, and three different [p]s, readily making possible the ―narrow transcription or diacritics‖. Phones may and may not distinguish meaning. A ―phoneme‖ is a phonological unit; it is a unit that is of distinctive value. As an abstract unit, a phoneme is not any particular sound, but rather it is represented or realized by a certain phone in a certain phonetic context. For example, the phoneme[p] is represented differently in [pit], [tip] and [spit]. The

phones representing a phoneme are called its ―allophones‖, i.e., the different (i.e., phones) but do not make one word so phonetically different as to create a new word or a new meaning thereof. So the different [p] s in the above words are the allophones of the same phoneme [p]. How a phoneme is represented by a phone, or which allophone is to be used, is determined by the phonetic context in which it occurs. But the choice of an allophone is not random. In most cases it is rule-governed; these rules are to be found out by a phonologist

What are minimal pairs? When two different phonetic forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment which occurs in the same place in the string, the two forms (i. e., word) are suppo sed to form a ―minimal pair‖, e.g., ―pill‖ and ―bill‖, ―pill‖ and ―till‖, ―till‖ and ―dill‖, ―till‖ and ―kill‖, etc. All these words together constitute a minimal set. They are identical in form except for the initial consonants. There are many minimal pairs in English, which makes it relatively easy to know what areEnglish phonemes. It is of great importance to find the minimal pairs when a phonologist is dealing with the sound system of an unknown language

What is free variation? If two sounds occurring in the same environment do not contrast; namely, if the substitution of one for the other does not generate a new word form but merely a different pronunciation of the same word, the two sounds then are said to be in ―free variation‖. The plosives, for example, may not be exploded when they occur before another plosive or a nasal (e. g., act, apt, good morning). The minute distinctions may, if necessary, be transcribed in diacritics. These unexploded and exploded plosives are in free variation. Sounds in free variation should be assigned to the same phoneme

What is complementary distribution? When two sounds never occur in the same environment, they are in ―complementary distribution‖. For example, the aspirated English plosives never occur after [s], and the unsaturated ones never occur initially. Sounds in complementary distribution may be assigned to the same phoneme. The allophones of [l], for example, are also in complementary distribution. The clear [l] occurs only before a vowel, the voiceless equivalent of [l] occurs only after a voiceless consonant, such as in the words ―please‖, ―butler‖, ―clear‖, etc., and the dark [l] occurs only after a vowel or as a syllabic sound after a consonant, such as in the words ―feel‖, ―help‖, ―middle‖, etc

What is the assimilation rule? What is the deletion rule? The ―assimilation rule‖ assimilates one segment to another by ―copying‖ a feature ofa sequential phoneme, thus making the two phones more similar. This rule accounts for the raring pronunciation of the nasal [n] that occurs within a word. The rule is that within a word the nasal consonant[n] assumes the same place of articulation as the following consonant. The negative prefix ―in-― serves as a good example. It may be pronounced as [in], [i] or [im] when occurring in different phonetic contexts: e.

g., indiscrete-[ ] (alveolar) inconceivable-[ ](velar) input-[?imput] (bilabial) The ―deletion rule‖ tells us when a sound is to be deleted although is orthographically represented. Whi le the letter ―g‖ is mute in ―sign‖, ―design‖ and ―paradigm‖, it is pronounced in their corresponding derivatives: ―signature‖, ―designation‖ and ―paradigmatic‖. The rule then can be stated as: delete a [g] when it occurs before a final nasal consonant. This accounts for some of the

seeming irregularities of the English spelling

What is suprasegmental phonology? What are suprasegmental features? ―Suprasegmental phonology‖ refers to the study of phonological properties of linguistic units larger tha n the segment called phoneme, such as syllable, length and pitch, stress, intonation

What is morphology? ―Morphology‖ is the branch of grammar that studies the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed. It is generally divided into two fields: inflectional morphology and lexical/derivational morphology.

What is inflection/inflexion? ―Inflection‖ is the manifestation of grammatical relationships through the addition of inflectional affixes, such as number, person, finiteness, aspect, and case, which does not change the grammatical class of the items to which they are attached

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What is a morpheme? What is an allomorph? The ―morpheme‖ is the smallest unit in terms of relationship between expression and content, a unit which cannot be divided without destroying or drastically altering the meaning, whether it is lexical or grammatical. The word ―boxes‖, for example, has two morphemes: ―box‖ and ―-es‖, neither of which permits furthe r division or analysis if we don‘t wish to sacrifice meaning. Therefore a morpheme is considered the minimal unit of meaning. Allomorphs, like allophones vs. phones, are the alternate shapes (and thus phonetic forms) of the same morphemes. Some morphemes, though, have no more than one invariable form in all contexts, such as ―dog‖, ―cat‖, etc. The variants of the plurality ―-s‖ make the allomorphs thereof in the following examples: map-maps, mouse-mice, sheep-sheep etc

What is a free morpheme? What is a bound morpheme? A ―free morpheme‖ is a morpheme that constitutes a word by itself, such as ?bed‖, ―tree‖, etc. A ―bound morpheme‖ is one that appears with at least another morpheme, such as ―-s‖ in ―beds‖, ―-al‖ in ―national‖ and so on. All monomorphemic words are free morphemes. Those polymorphemic words are either compounds (combination of two or more free morphemes) or derivatives (word derived from free morphemes) 45

What is a root ? What is a stem? What is an affix? A ―root‖ is the base for m of a word that cannot be further analyzed without total loss of identity. In other words, a ―root‖ is that part of the word left when all the affixes are removed. ―Internationalism‖ is a four-morpheme derivative which keeps its free morpheme ―nation‖ as its root when ― inter-‖, ―-al‖ and ―-ism‖ are taken away.

A ―stem‖ is any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which an affix can be added. It may be the same as, and in other cases, different from, a root. For example, in the word ―friends‖, ―friend‖ is both the root and the stem, but in the word ―friendships‖, ―friendships‖ is its stem, ―friend‖ is its root. Some words (i. e., compounds ) have more than one root ,e. g., ―mailman‖ , ―girlfriend‖ ,ect. An ―affix‖ is the collective term for the type of fo rmative that can be used, only when added to another morpheme(the root or stem). Affixes are limited in number in a language,

and are generally classified into three subtypes: prefix, suffix and infix, e. g. , ―mini-‖, ―un-‖, ect.(prefix); ―-ise‖, ―-tion‖, ect.(suffix)

What are open classes? What are closed classes? In English, nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs make up the largest part of the vocabulary. They are ―open-class words‖, since we can regularly add new lexical entries to these classes. The other syntactic categories are, for the most part, closed classes, or closed-class words. The number

of them is hardly alterable, if they are changeable at all

What is lexicon? What is word? What is lexeme? What is vocabulary? Lexicon? Word? Lexeme? V ocabulary? ―Lexicon‖, in its most general sense, is synonymous with vocabulary. In its technical sense, however, lexicon deals with theanalysis and creation of words, idioms and collocations. ―Word‖ is a unit of expression which has universal i ntuitive recognition by native-speakers, whether it is expressed in spoken or written form. This definition is perhaps a little vague as there are different criteria with regard to its identification and definition. It seems that it is hard, even impossibl e, to define ―word‖ linguistically. Nonetheless it is universally agreed that the following three senses are involved in the definition of ―word‖, none of which, though, is expected to cope with all the situations: (1) a physically definable unit, e.g. [it iz ?w ] (phonological), ―It is wonder‖ (orthographic); (2) the common factor underlying a set of forms (see what is the common factor of ―checks‖, ―checked‖, ―checking ‖, etc.); (3) a grammatical unit (look at (1) again; every word plays a grammatical part in the sentence). According to Leonard Bloomfield, a word is a minimum free form (compare: a sentence is a maximum free form, according to Bloomfield). There are other factors that may help us identify words: (1) stability (no great change of orthographic features); (2) relative uninterruptibility (we can hardly insert anything between two parts of a word or between the letters). To make the category clearer we can subclassify words into a few types: (1) variable and invariable words; (2) grammatical and lexical words (e. g. to, in, etc., and table, chair, etc. By ―lexical words‖ we mean the words that carry a semantic content, e.g., nouns, verbs, adjectives and many adverbs; (3) closed-class and open-class words. In order to reduce the ambiguity of the term ―word‖, the term ―lexeme‖ is postulated as the abstract unit which refers to the smallest unit in the meaning system of a language that can be distinguished from other smaller units. A lexeme can occur in many different forms in actual spoken or writt en texts. For example, ―write‖ is the lexeme of the following words: ―write‖, ―write‖, ―wrote‖, ―writing‖, and ―written.‖ ―V ocabulary‖ usually refers to all words or lexical items a person has acquired about technical or/and untechnical things. So we encourage our students to enlarge their vocabulary. ―vocabulary‖ is also used to mean word list or glossary

What is collocation? ―Collocation‖ is a term used in lexicology by some linguists to refer to the habitual co-occurrences of individual lexical items. For example, we can ―read‖ a ―book‖; ―correct‖ can narrowly occur with ―book‖ which is supposed to have faults, but no one can ―read‖

a ―mistake‖ because with regard to co-occurrence these two words are not collocates

What is syntax? ―Syntax‖ is the study of the rules governing the ways in which words, word groups and phrases are combined to form sentences in a language, or the study of the interrelationships between sentential elements

What is a sentence? L. Bloomfield defines ―sentence‖ as an independent linguistic form not included by some grammatical marks in any other linguistic from, i. e., it is

not subordinated to a larger linguistic form, it is a structurally independent linguistic form. It is also called a maximum free form

What are syntactic relations? ―Syntactic relations‖ refer to the ways in which words, word groups or phrases form sentences; hence three kinds of syntactic relations: positional relations, relations of substitutability and relations of co-occurr ence. ―Positional relation‖, or ―word order‖, refers to the sequential arrangement to words in a language. It is a manifestation of a certain aspect of what F. de Saussure called ―syntagmatic relations‖, or of what other linguists call ―horizontal relation s‖ or ―chain relations‖. ―Relations of substitutability‖ refer to classes or sets of words substitutable for each other grammatically in same sentence structures. Saussure called them ―associative relations‖. Other people call them ―paradigmatic/vertical/choice relations‖. By ―relations of co-occurrence‖, one means that words of different sets of clauses may permit o require the occurrence of a word of another set or class to form a sentence or a particular part of a sentence. Thus relations of co-occurrence partly belong to syntagmatic relations and partly to paradigmatic relations

What is IC analysis? What are immediate constituents (and ultimate constituents)? ―IC analysis‖ is a new approach of sentence study that cuts a sentence into two (or mor e) segments. This kind of pure segmentation is simply dividing a sentence into its constituent elements without even knowing what they really are. What remain of the first cut are called ―immediate constituents‖, and what are left at the final cut are called ―ultimate constituents‖. For example, ―John left yesterday‖ can be thus segmented: ―John| left | | yesterday‖. We get two immediate constituents for the first cut (|), and they are ―John‖ and ―left yesterday‖. Further split(||) this sentence generates t hree ―ultimate constituents‖: ―John‖, ―left ‖ and ―yesterday‖

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What are endocentric and exocentric constructions? ―Endocentric construction‖ is one whose distribution is functionally equivalent to that of one or more of its constituents, i.e., a word or a group of words, which serves as a definable ―centre‖ or ―head‖. Usually noun phrases, verb phrases and adjective phrases belong to endocentric types because the constituent items are subordinate to the head. ―Exocentric construction‖, opposite of endocentric construction, refers to a group of syntactically related words where none of the words is functionally equivalent to the group as whole; that is to say, there is no definable centre or head inside the group. Exocentric construction usually includes basic sentence, prepositional phrase, predicate (verb + object) construction, and connective (be + complement) construction

What is a subject? A predicate? An object? In some language, an ―subject‖ refers to one of

the nouns in the nominative case, such as ―pater‖ in the following example: ―pater filium amat‖ (put literally in English: the father the son loves). In English, a ―grammatical subject‖ refers to a noun which can establish correspondence with the verb and which can be checked by a tag-question test, e.g., ―He is a good cook, (isn‘t he?).‖ A ―predicate‖ refers to a major constituent of sentence structure in a binary analysis in which all obligatory constituents other than the subject are co nsidered together. e.g., in the sentence ―The monkey

is jumping ‖, ―is jumping ‖ is the predicate. Traditionally ―object‖ refers to the receiver or goal of an action, and it is further classified into two kinds: direct object and indirect object. In some inflecting languages, an object is marked by case labels: the ―accusative case‖ for direct object, and the ―dative case ‖ for direct object, and the ―dative case‖ for indirect to word order (after the verb and preposition) and by inflections (of pronouns). e.g., in the sentence ―John kissed me‖, ―me‖ is the object. Modern linguists suggest that an object refers to such an item that it can become a subject in passive transformation

What is category? The term ―category‖ in some approaches refers to c lasses and functions in its narrow sense, e.g., noun, verb, subject, predicate, noun phrase, verb phrase, etc. More specifically it refers to the defining properties of these general units: the categories of the noun, for example, include number, gender, case and countability; and of the verb, for example, tense, aspect, voice, etc

What is number? What is gender? What is case? ―Number‖ is a grammatical category used for the analysis of word classes displaying such contrasts as singular, dual, plural, etc. In English, number is mainly observed in nouns, and there are only two forms: singular and plural. Number is also reflected in the inflections of pronouns and verbs. ―Gender‖ displays such contrasts as ―masculine‖, ―feminine‖, ―neuter‖, or ―animate‖ and ―inanimate‖, etc., for the analysis of word classes. When word items refer to the sex of the real-world entities, we natural gender (the opposite is grammatical gender). ―Case‖ identifies the syntactic relationship between words in a sentence. In Latin grammar, cases are based on variations in the morphological forms of the word, and are given the terms ―accusative‖, ―nominative‖, ―dative‖, etc. In English, the case category is realized in three ways: by following a preposition and by word order

What is concord? What is government? ―Concord ‖ may be defined as requirement that the forms of two or more words of specific word classes that stand in specific syntactic relationship with one another shall be characterized by the same paradigmatically marked category or categories, e.g., ―man runs‖, ―men run‖. ―Government‖ requires that one word of a particular class in a given syntactic class shall exhibit the form of a specific category. In English, government applies only to pronouns among the variable words, that is, prepositions and verbs govern particular forms of the paradigms of pronouns according to their syntactic relation with them, e.g., ―I helped him; he helped me.‖ 58

What is a phrase? What is a clause? A ―phrase‖ is a single eleme nt of structure containing more than one word, and lacking thesubject-predicate structure typical of ―clauses‖. Traditionally, it is seen as part of a structural hierarchy, falling between a clause and word, e.g., ―the three tallest girls‖ (nominal phrase). There is

now a tendency to make a distinction between word groups and phrases. A ―word group‖ is an

extension of a word of a particular class by way of modification with its main features of the class unchanged. Thus we have nominal group, verbal group, adverbial group, conjunction group and preposition group. A ―clause‖ is group of words with its own subject and predicate included in a larger subject-verb construction, namely, in a sentence. Clauses can also be classified into two kinds: finite and non-finite clauses, the latter referring to what are traditionally called infinitive phrase, participle phrase and gerundial phrase

What is conjoining? What is embedding? What is recursiveness? ―Conjoining‖ refers to a construction where one clause is co-ordinated or conjoined with another, e. g., ―John bought a cat and his wife killed her.‖ ―Embedding‖ refers to the process of construction where one clause is included in the sentence (or main clause) in syntactic subordination, e.g., ―I saw the man wh o had killed a chimpanzee.‖ By ―recursiveness‖ we mean that there is theoretically no limit to the number of the embedded clauses in a complex sentence. This is true also with nominal and adverbial clauses, e.g., ―I saw the man who killed a cat who…a rat which…that…‖ 60 What is hypotactic relation? What is paratactic relation? ―Hypotactic relation‖ refers to a construction where constituents are linked by means of conjunction, e.g. ―He bought eggs and milk.‖ ―Paratactic relation‖ refers to constructi ons which are connected by juxtaposition, punctuation or intonation, e. g., ―He bought tea, coffee, eggs and milk‖ (pay attention to the first three nouns connected without ―and‖)

What is semantics? ―Semantics‖ refers to the study of the communic ation of meaning through language. Or simply, it is the study of meaning

What is meaning? Though it is difficult to define, ―meaning‖ has the following meaning: (1) an intrinsic property; (2) the connotation of a word; (3) the words put after a dictionary entry;

(4) the position an object occupies in a system; (5) what the symbol user actually refers to; (6) what the symbol user should refer to; (7) what the symbol user believes he is referring to; (8) what the symbol interpreter refers to; (9) what the symbol interpreter believes it refers to; (10) what the symbol interpreter believes the user refers to…linguists argued about ―meaning of meaning‖ fiercely in the result of ―realism‖, ―conceptualism/mentalism‖, ―mechanism‖, ―contextualism‖, ―behaviorism‖, ―functionalism‖, etc. Mention ought to be made of the ―Semantic Triangle Theory‖ of Ogden & Richards. We use a word and the listener knows what it refers to because, according to the theory, they have acquired the same concept/reference of the word used and of the object/referent

What is the difference???????between meaning, concept, connotation, sense, implication, denotation, notation, reference, implicature

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and significat ion? ―Meaning‖ refers to the association of language symbols with the real word. ―Concept‖ or ―notion‖ is the impression of objects in people‘s mind. ―connotation‖ is the implied meaning, similar to ―implication‖ and ―implicature‖. ―Sense‖ is the lexical p osition in which a word finds itself. ―Denotation‖, like ―sense‖, is not directly related with objects, but makes the abstract assumption of the real world. ―Reference‖ is the word-object relationship. ―Implicature‖, in its narrow sense, refers to conversational implicature achieved by intentionally violating one of the four CP maxims. ―Signification‖, in contrast with ―value‖, mean the meaning of situation may not have any communicative value, like ―What‘s this?‖ 64

What is the Semantic/Semiotic Triangle? Ogden and Richards presented the classic ―Semantic Triangle‖ as manifested in the following diagram, in which the ―symbol‖ or ―form‖ refers to the linguistic elements (word, sentence, etc.), the ―referent‖ refers to the object in the world of experi ence, and ―thought‖ or ―reference‖ refers to concept or notion. Thus, the symbol a word signifies ―things‖ by virtue of the ―concept‖, associated with the form of the word in the mind of the speaker of the language. The ―concept‖ thus considered is meaning of the word

What is contextualism? ―Contextualism‖ is based on the presumption that one can derive meaning from, or reduce it to, observable context: the ―situational context‖ and the ―linguistic context‖. Every utterance occurs in a particular s patial-temporal situation, as the following factors are related to the situational context: (1) the speaker and the hearer; (2) the actions they are performing at the time; (3) various external objects and events; (4) deictic features. The ―linguistic cont ext‖ is another aspect of contextualism. It considers the probability of one word‘s co-occurrence or collocation with another, which forms part of the meaning, and an important factor in communication

How many kinds of meaning did linguists find and study? C. C. Fries (1952) makes a traditional distinction between lexical meaning and structural meaning. The former is expressed by those―meaningful‖ parts of speech, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, and is given in the dictionary associated with grammar. The latter expresses the distinction between the subject and the object of a sentence, oppositions of definiteness, tense the number, and the difference between statements, questions and requests. In a word, ―the total linguistic meaning of any utterance consists of the lexical meaning of the separate words plus such structural meaning…‖ G. Leech (1981) categorizes seven kinds of meaning, five of which are brought under the ―associative meaning‖. Different from the traditional and the func tional approach, F. R. Palmer (1981) and J. Lyons (1977) suggest we draw a distinction between sentence meaning and utterance meaning, the former being directly predictable from the grammatical and lexical features of the sentence, while the latter includes all the various types of meaning not necessarily associated thereto

What is synonymy? ―Synonymy‖ is used to mean sameness or close similarity of meaning. Dictionary makers (lexicographers) rely on the existence of synonymy for their definitions. Some semanticians maintain, however, that there are no real synonyms, because two or more words named synonyms are expected without exception to differ from one another in one of the

following aspects: In shades of meaning (e.g., finish, complete, close, conclude, terminate, finalize, end, etc.); In stylistic meaning; In emotive meaning (or affective meaning); In range of use (or collocative meaning); In British and American English usages [e.g., autumn (BrE), fall (AmE)]. Simeon Potter said,― Language is like dress. We vary our dress to suit the occasion. We do not appear at a friend‘s silver-wedding anniversary in gardening clothes, nor do we go punting on the river in a dinner-jacket.‖ This means the learning of synonyms is important to anyone that wish es to use his language freely and well

What is Antonymy? How many kinds of antonyms are there? The term ―antonymy‖ is used for oppositions of meaning; words that stand opposite in meaning are called ―antonyms‖, or opposites, which fall in there categories1) gradable antonyms (e.g, good-bad); (2) complementary antonyms (e.g., single-married); (3) relational antonyms (e.g., buy-sell)

What is hyponymy? What is a hyponym? What is superordinate? ―Hyponymy‖ involves us in the notion of meaning inclusion. It is a matter of class membership. That is to say, when X id a kind of Y, the lower term X is the ―hyponym‖, and the upper term Y is the ―superordinate‖. Two or more hyponyms sharing the same one superordinate are called ―co-hyponyms‖. For examp le, ―flower‖ is the superordinate of ―tulip‖, ―violet‖ and ―rose‖, which are the co-hyponyms of ―flower‖

What is polysemy? What is homonymy? ―Polysemy‖ refers to the semantic phenomenon that a word may have than one meaning. For example, ―negative‖, means (1) a statement saying or meaning ―no‖, (2) a refusal or denial, (3) one of the following words and expressions: no, not, nothing, never, not at all, etc., (4) a negative photograph or film. But we can sometimes hardly tell if a form has several meanings or it is a different word taking this form; hence the difference between polysemy and homonymy

What is entailment? ―Entailment‖ can be illustrated by the following two sentences, with Sentence A entailing Sentence B: A: He married a blonde heiress. B: He married a blonde. In terms of truth value, the following relationships exist between these two sentences1) When A is true, B is necessarily true;(2) When B is false, too;(3) when A is false, B may be true or false; (4) When B is true, A may be true or false. Entailment is basically a semantic relation or logical implication, but we have to assume co-reference of ―He‖ in sentence A and sentence B, before we have A entail B.

What is presupposition? Similar to entailment, ―presupposition‖ is a semantic relationship or logical connection. The above-mentioned ―When phrase No.1‖is also true with presupposition. For example: A: The girl he married was an heiress. B: He married a girl. But there is an important difference: Presupposition is not subject to negation, i.e., when A is false, B is still true. Other statements about the truth value in presupposition are1) When B is true, A can either be true or false;(2) When B is false, A has no truth value at all. Presupposition does not have to be found between two propositions. An example in point is: ― When did you stop beating your wife?‖ This presupposes that he has been beating his wife

What is componential analysis? ―Componential analysis‖ defines the meaning of a lexical element in terms of semantic components. For example, we may ―clip‖ the following words ―Man‖, ―Woman‖, ―Boy‖ and ―Girl‖ so that we have only separate parts of them. Man: + Human + Adult + Male Woman: + Human + Adult -Male Boy: +Human –Adult +Male Girl: +Human –Adult –Male 74

What is predication analysis? What is aone-place predicate? What is a two-place predicate? What is a no-place predicate? What are down-graded predications? ―Predication analysis‖ is a new approach for sentential meaning analysis. ―Predication‖ is usually considered an important common category shared by propositions, questions, commands, etc. Predication is to break down the sentence into their smaller constituents: argument (logical participant) and predicate (relation element). The ―predicate‖ is the major or pivotal element governing the argument. We may now distinguish a ―two-place predicate‖ (which governs two arguments, e.g., subject and object), a ―one-place predicate‖ (which governs one argument, i.e., subject) and a ―no-place pr edicate‖ that has simply no argument (no real subject or object)

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What is a logical operator? ―Logical operator ‖ make only one kind of the ―logical factors‖ or ―logical means‖, others being ―definiteness‖, ―coreference‖,―tense‖ and ―time‖, since predication is not the whole of a sentence or proposition. All these factors play a part in prepositional actualization of the predication ---the pining of a predication down a claim about reality. Example of logical operators ar e ―not‖, ―and‖, ―or‖, ―some‖, ―if‖, ―false‖, etc. The term ―logical

operation‖ reflects the fact that these meaning elements are often thought of as performing operations, controlling elements of the semantic system, so to speak

Why is writing important? Why is speech considered prior to writing? Language can take the form of speech or writing, the former using sound as medium and the latter employing visual symbols. No one could tell when mankind first spoke; nor could people tell when mankind developed the first writing. A writing system consists of a graphemes plus characteristic features of their use, resulting in the diversion of the writing forms; word writing, syllabic writing and sound writing. It is widely considered that speech is the primary medium, and writing the secondary medium. But this comparative diminution does not mean that writing is unimportant. With the shot-lived memory and the finite capacity of information storing, writing is used, partly for compensation and partly for better communication. We cannot trust the negotiation counterpart so we turn to the writing and signing of an agreement. Writing leads people to the acme of science, study and research, and to the ultimate joy of literature 77

What is a pictogram? What is an ideogram? A ―pictogram‖ refers to an inscription representing the features of a physical object. The Hebrew and the Chinese orthography still reflects traces of their pictorial origin. For instance, the letter ―a‖ (aleph) imitates the head of an ox and the letter ―b‖ (beth) imitates a horse. And ―niú‖, ―m

‖, ―h

‖and hundreds more of Chinese words derived from, and still keep the pictorial resemblance to, the shapes of the things or objects. The advantage of pictograms is that they can be easily understood by anyone. That explains why international road signs and public-toilet signs make a wide use of them

An ―ideogram‖ means an idea picture or idea writing. In order to express the attribute of an object or concepts associated with it, the pictogra m‘s meaning had to be extended. For instance, a picture of the sun does not necessarily represent the object itself, but connotes ―warmth‖, ―heat‖, ―light‖, ―daytime‖, etc. In spite of its disadvantages, the later form of ideograms turned out to be linguis tic symbols, symbols for the sounds of these objects. The process is called the ―Rebus Principle‖ indicating that writing is like a riddle composed of words or syllables depicted by symbols or pictures that suggest the sound of the words or syllables they represent. 78

What is word writing? What is sound writing? What is syllabic writing? Word writing refers to the writing system based on ideograms and/or pictograms, like Chinese. ―Sound writing ‖ or ―alphabetic writing‖, which dominates the world, de rived form the Latin alphabet with mild adjustments. Most of the European alphabets belong to the sound writing system, e.g., Spanish, German, French, English, etc. ―Syllabic writing‖ is a word-syllabus writing, developed by the Egyptians. Japanese is a typical syllabic-writing language, though derived from Chinese, a Sino-Tibetan language. The Japanese modified the Chinese characters they had borrowed from ancient China so that the Japanese syllables (to the number of fifty) were each represented, either b y what is called ―hiragana‖ or by what is name ―katakana‖

What is a grapheme? What is orthography? A ―grapheme‖ is the minimal constructive unit in the writing system of a language. The English grapheme A is represented by A,

,a etc. Orthography means correct spelling, spelling rules or attempts to improve spelling

What is affixation, conversion and compounding? ―Affixation‖ is the morphological process whereby grammatical of lexical information is added to the base (root or stem). It has been the oldest and the most productive word-formation method in the English language and some other European languages. ―Prefixation‖ means addition of a prefix to make a new word, while ―suffixation‖ means adding a suffix to a word. The word ―unfaithful‖ is result of both prefixation and suffixation. ―Conversion‖ (called sometimes ―full conversion‖) is a word-formation process by which a word is altered from one part of speech into another without the addition (or deletion) of any morpheme. ―Partial conversion‖ is also alteration when a word of one word-class appears in a function which is characteristic of another word-class, e.g., ― the wealthy‖ (=wealthy people). ‖Compounding‖ is so complex a word-formation process as far as English is concerned that there is no formal criterion that can be used for the definition of it, though it may mean simply that two words or more come together used as one lexical item, like ―dustbin‖

What is blending, abbreviation and back formation? ―Blending‖ is a rel atively complex form of compounding in which two roots are blended by joining the initial part of the first root and

the final part of the second root, or by joining the initial parts of the two roots, e.g., smog

→

smoke+fog, boatel

→

boat + hotel, etc. ―Abbreviation‖, also called in some cases ―clipping‖, means that a word that seems unnecessarily long is shortened, usually by clipping either the front or the back part of it, e.g., telephone

→

phone, professor

→

prof., etc. Broadly speaking, abbreviation includes acronyms that are made up from the first letters of the long name of an organization, e.g., World Bank

→

WB, European Economic Community

→

EEC, etc. Other examples of acronyms can be found with terminologies, to be read like one word, e.g., radio detecting and ranging

→

radar. Test of English as a Foreign Language

→

TOEFL , etc. ―Back-formation‖ refers to an abnormal type of word-formation where a shorter word is derived by detecting an imagined affix from a longer form already present in the language. It is a special kind of metanalyais, combined with analogical creation, e.g., editor

→

edit, enthusiasm

→

enthuse, etc

What is analogical creation? What is borrowing? The process of ―analogical creation‖, as one of the English tendencies in English word-formation, refers to the phenomenon that a new word or a new phrase is coined by analogy between a newly created one and an existing one. For example, ―marathon‖ appeared at the First Olympic Games and by analogy modern English created such word s as ―telethon‖, ―talkthon‖, etc. Analogy may create single words (e.g., sunrise-moonrise, earthrise, etc.; earthquake-starquake, youthquake, etc.) and phrases (e.g., environmental pollution-sound pollution, air pollution, cultural pollution, etc.).

―Borrowing‖ means the English language borrowed words from foreign languages, which fall in four categories: aliens, denizens, translation-loans and semantic borrowings. ―Aliens‖ are foreign loans that still keep their alien shapes, i. e., morphological and pho nological features, e.g., ―elite‖, ―coup détat‖, ―coupé‖, etc.(from French). ―Deniens‖ , also foreign words, have transformed their foreign appearance, i.e., they have been Angolcized (or Americanized), e. g., ―get‖ (a Scandinavian borrowing), ―theater‖ (a French loan), etc. ―Hybrids‖ are also denizens, because they are words made up of two parts both from foreign soil, such as ―sociology‖ (―socio-‖ from French and –logy from Greek). ―Translation-loans‖ are words imported by way of translation, e. g., ―black humor‖ from French(―humor noir‖), ―found object‖ form French ,too (―object trouve‖), etc.

Finally, semantic borrowings have acquired new meaning under the influence of language or languages other than the source tongue. For example, ―gift‖ mean ―the price of a wife ‖ in Old English (450-1150AD), and after the semantic borrowing of the meaning of ―gift or present‖ of the Scandinavian term ―gipt‖, it meant and still means ―gift‖ in the modern sense of it

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What is assimilation, dissimilation and metathesis? ―Assimilation‖ refers to change of a sound as the result of the influence of an adjacent sound, which is called ―contact‖ or ―contiguous‖ assimilation. The assimitative processes at word in language could be explained by the ―theory of least effort‖ ,i.e., in speaking we tend to exert as little effort as possible so that we do not want to vary too often places of articulation in uttering a sequence of sounds. Assimilation takes pla ce in quick speech very often. In expressions such as ―immobile‖, ―illegal‖, etc., the negative prefixes should be or have been ―in-‖ etymologically. ―Dissimilation‖, opposite of assimilation, is the influence exercised by one sound segment upon the articulation of another sound, so that the sounds become less alike than expected. As there are two[r] sounds in the Latin word ―peregrines‖, for instance, the first segment had to dissimilate into[l], hence the English word ―pilgrim‖. ―Metathesis‖ is a process involving an alteration in the sequence of sounds. Metathesis had originally been a performance error, which was overlooked and accepted by the speech community. For instance, the word ―bird‖ was ―bird‖ in Old English. The word ―ask‖ used to be pronounced [ask] in Old English, as still occurs in some English dialects

What is pragmatics? Pragmatics can be simply defined as the study of language in use. It is concerned with the study of meaning as communicated by a speaker (or writer) and interpreted by a listener (or reader). It has, consequently, more to do with the analysis of what people mean by their utterances than what the words or phrases in those utterances might mean by themselves

What is speech act theory? Speech act theory was proposed by J. L. Austin and has been developed by J. R. Searle. Basically, they believe that language is not only used to inform or to describe things, it is often used to ―do things‖, to perform acts

Austin suggests three basic senses in which in saying something one is

doing something and three kinds of acts are performed simultaneously: 1) Locutionary act: the utterance of a sentence with determinate sense and reference; 2) Illocutionary act: the making of a statement, offer, promise, etc, in uttering a sentence, by virtue of the conventional force associated with it; 3) Perlocutionary act: the bringing about of effects on the audience by means of uttering the sentence, such effects being special to the circumstances

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