Lecture 3 Flashcards

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Linguistic Investigation

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Begins by collecting adequate samples of contexts to determine meanings.

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Plurality in Word-Forms

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A common grammatical element found in words like girls, winters, joys.

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Functional vs. Referential Meaning

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Functional meaning involves interrelation of linguistic units; referential meaning involves interrelation of units and referents.

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Grammatical aspect of part-of-speech meanings.

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Conveyed by a set of forms, indicating the word's grammatical role.

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Example of lexical meaning in nouns.

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Words like "table," "love," and "sugar" share the meaning of substantiality.

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Lexical meaning of prepositions

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Relatively vague, e.g., "independent of smb."

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Subjective nature of emotive charge

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The emotive implication of a word is subjective and depends on the personal experience of the speaker.

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Literary layer of vocabulary

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The literary layer of Modern English vocabulary consists of words of general use with no specific stylistic reference.

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Literary (bookish) words

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Literary words are not stylistically homogeneous and include terms like "harmony" and "calamity."

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Scientific words examples

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renaissance, genocide, teletype