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Across: 1. The study of the units of language that carry meaning 3. Refers to the form of a language that speakers of the language think they OUGHT to speak, whether or not they DO speak it 6. A version of a language, the way a particular group of people at a particular time and place speak 7. The study of the sounds of a language 8. "_____ Grammar" is Chomsky's term for the innate capacity for language which he believes all children have. 10. A "______ grammar" tries to discuss the way speakers of a language actually speak. 11. The parts into which a structure can be analyzed; the parts or units that make up a sentence 13. A morpheme that provides the basic meaning of a word (also called a "base") 15. The kind of morpheme that adapts a word to a grammatical role. English has eight of them: past, past participle, present participle, 3rd-person singular present tense, plural, possessive, comparative, and superlative. 17. Traditionally, "the name of a person, place, or thing." Some people add "or concept." 18. Branch of linguistics that deals with the practical meanings sentences have in context (for example, "How do you do?" is rarely a real question) 19. Speech adults use as they interact with children. 20. Applies to a sentence with a subject that actually does the action to a direct object. 21. Word used to describe the version of a language spoken by a particular individual 23. "The study of meaning in language" 24. ______ grammar studies the rules a native speaker of a language uses to generate sentences and change them into different sentences (like changing a statement to a yes/no questions)

Down: 2. The structure of a dialect at a specific time and place; what a native speaker knows (besides vocabulary) that makes it possible to create sentences 4. "_____ grammar" used Latin (or even Greek) grammar to analyze English. 5. The scientific study of language 7. "______ grammar" tells us how we OUGHT to speak. 9. "______ structure" refers to the sentence as we actually say or write it. 12. The branch of linguistics that deals with word order and sentence structure 14. In this kind of sentence, the action of the verb is done to, not by, the subject of the sentence. 16. A shortened form that combines two words, like "isn't" or "he's" 22. "_____ structure" refers to the underlying meaning or ideas that ultimately produce a sentence.