Midterm 2 Flashcards
(21 cards)
Sense
What a word means in our head
All the prototypes of a thing we have acquired through life
Reference
Things in real life we can point to that refer to a certain word
Inflectional morphemes
Do not change part of speech
None are prefixes
Only 8 of them
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Derivational morphemes
All except the 8 inflectional
Free v bound morphemes
Free - can exist on its own as a word
Bound - cannot
Mental lexicon
The list of word that we have in our brain containing all the morphemes and words that a speaker knows
Hyponymy
Hypernym - general category (cars)
Hyponym - subset of hypernym (toyotas)
Synonyms
Words with similar meaning
Antonyms
Words with opposite meaning
Polysemy
A word that has different meanings
(One is usually metaphoric)
bright person v bright light
Homophony
Words that are pronounces the same but have different meanings (may be spelled differently)
Homonymy
Words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently
Intransitive verbs
What is after the verb is not required
Transitive verbs
One required argument (one required piece)
Ditransitive verbs
Requires 2 arguments
Speech acts
Are actions that are carried out through utterances
Performative speech acts
The action is performed by saying the sentence
“I pronounced you man and wife”
Direct speech acts
Literal meaning
Indirect speech acts
Not literal meaning
What we say is different than what we mean
Sentence diagrams and word diagrams
Need to do both
Content vs function morpheme
Content morphemes – contribute something about the meaning of the word aside from tense, plurality, etc
Function morphemes – change only the tense, plurality, etc while the general meaning of the word stays the same
