A Linguistics Workbook, 4th Edition
plane (aircraft; flat or level surface) 5. fire (as in forest fire; cause someone to become unemployed) ...
Name Section 5.5 Evaluative and Emotive Meaning A word may be associated with more than its literal meaning; it may have emotion ...
resign, quit, throw in the towel release, discharge, fire (from a job) 5. meticulous, fussy, nit-picking 6. car, jalopy, heap 7 ...
discriminating, exclusive, snobbish nonsense, baloney, a crock father, dad, old man dead body, corpse, stiff B. Provide three ...
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Name Section 5.6 Special Topic: Gramma ticaliza tion of Semantic Properties Semantic features or categories that are overtly exp ...
Questions A. There is overlap between the semantic properties that Navajo and Chinese grammaticalize. But now consider how Engli ...
D. Compare and contrast Chinese, Navajo, and English with respect to the importance that the physical shape of objects plays in ...
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6 Language Variation ...
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Name Section 6.1 Pronouns: English Questions Answer the questions associated with each of the sentences below. A. 1. Circle the ...
Were any of your choices problematic? If so, which one(s) and why? ...
Name Section 6.2 British English The following passage contains many words and phrases characteristic of the British English spo ...
Question Translate as much of the passage as you can into American English. Try to guess the meaning of each word that you do no ...
7 Language Change ...
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Name Section 7.1 indo-European to English I Question The reconstructed Indo-European (IE) words given in 1-8 are the ancestors o ...
You need to be mentally flexible for this exercise: experiment and make your best guess about what could be a plausible descenda ...
IE word: *gembh Meaning: "tooth" English word: Meaning change: IE word: *bhrew Meaning: "to boil, ferment" English word: Mea ...
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