Introduction to Linguistics

Arbitrary is...

• There is no relation between the word and what it refers to.

• No connection between word and word.

• language has a meaning.

• A & B are true

• The reference of certain word.

Linguistics is

• Language

• The scientific study of linguists.

• The scientific study of language.

• the roles of language

• Internal study of language

The polite language studied in

• Neurolinguistics

• Psycholinguistics

• Sociolinguistics

• Semantics

• Applied Linguistics

Example of morpheme

• Hunter

• er from hunter

• hunt

• teacher

• B & C true

Root is

• Irreducible core of a word, with absolutely nothing else attached to it

• The variant forms (Sounds) of morpheme

• The smallest functioning unit of words

• a collective term for the types of word formation

• morpheme that can stand alone as separate words

two examples of compounding are..........

• Facebook

• Document

• Polysyllable

• Advertisement

• A & C true

"Prof" is an example of ..............

• Blending

• Clipping

• Acronym

• Compounding

• Cutting

Blending is ....

• Combining two already existing words.

• Shortening a polysyllabic words.

• Forming from the initial sounds or letters.

• Creating new words from parts of two already existing words

• Word structure

Verb phrase from the sentence "Martono gives money to Martini" is .....

• Martono

• Gives money

• To Martini

• Martono gives

• Gives money to Martini

Rika hits Riki in the class.

The PP from the sentence above is ..........

• Rika

• Hits

• Hits Riki

• In the class

• Rika Hits