LINGUISTICS II - GLOSSARY QUIZ

The application of insights from theoretical linguistics to practical matters such as language teaching, remedial linguistic therapy, language planning or others.

• Morphology

• Applied linguistics

• Language

The study of language. As a scientific discipline built on objective principles, linguistics did not develop until the beginning of the 19th century.

• Linguistics

• Grammar

• Part of speech

A system which consists of a set of symbols (sentences) — realised phonetically by sounds — which are used in a regular order to convey a certain meaning.

• Sentence

• Grammar

• Language

Is the study of the words as they express grammatical categories.

• Sentence

• Morphology

• Synonym

Any set of words which form a grammatical group

• Semantics

• Generative linguistics

• Part of speech

The study of meaning in language.

• Semantics

• Pragmatics

• Part of speech

The study of language in use in interpersonal communication.

• Semantics

• Pragmatics

• Part of speech

A level of linguistics which is concerned with the manner in which words combine together structurally to form sentences.

• Grammar

• Morphology

• Onomastics

The linguistic study of names, both personal and place names.

• Grammar

• Morphology

• Onomastics

A difference between two linguistic items which can be exploited systematically.

• Contrast

• Morphology

• General linguistics