Lesson 1 Terms

Some Basic Vocabulary for ENG 3321

The words in this crossword come from the word bank for the weekly quiz on lesson 1. You can find help with them in the course glossary as well as in the lesson 1 materials.
If you need more room to work, press F11. Pressing F11 again will restore the controls.

1                2                 
3                              
                           
    4                      5         
                           
6                      7            
                         8     
    9      10    11                        
                           
           12                    
    13                           
           14      15                 
16                              
           17                   
                           
18                               
                           
       19                        
                           
      20                          

Across:

2. the study of the sounds of a language
3. the way an individual speaks a language
4. the study of the meaningful units in a language
5. Although they are different on the surface, the ____ structure is the same in "David threw the trash out of the car" and "The trash was thrown out of the car by David."
6. A(n) _______ morpheme is added to a word to make it fit a particular grammatical function.
7. The International Phonetic Alphabet is a system devised to provide a separate, distinct symbol for each sound used in language.
10. A(n) ____ grammar tells speakers or writers how they SHOULD use the language.
12. A(n) _____ grammar attempts to describe what speakers of a language actually say or write.
13. A term that refers to the way morphological units are arranged into complete utterances
15. _____ grammar is a descriptive grammar that is a form of behaviorism
16. the set of structural rules speakers use to put units of language together in order to convey meaning (or to understand language put together by someone else)
17. the smallest MEANINGFUL unit of speech or language
18. ______ grammar is the kind of prescriptive grammar taught in nearly every American classroom before 1960
19. A(n) ________ morpheme carries lexical (dictionary) meaning or changes the part of speech of the word it is part of.
20. a kind of descriptive grammar that aims to describe rules that would generate all the grammatical sentences of English and no ungrammatical sentences

Down:

1. the scientific study of language
2. the part of linguistics that is concerned with what an utterance actually means in a particular setting, sometimes considered a branch of semantics
5. a particular version of a language (possibly standard, possibly nonstandard)
8. another name for transformational grammar
9. a dialect that is not accepted by speakers of the language as being "correct" or "good" or characteristic of well-educated people
11. the basic unit (morpheme) of a word (possibly a synonym for "base," but sometimes the words are used to describe different elements of language)
14. the part of linguistics that deals with meaning

This is a personal web page. Opinions or views expressed are those of the author and do not represent the official views of Winston-Salem State University.