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.
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)