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Frozen and formal levels of speech are identical.
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S. I. Hayakawa founded generative grammar.
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Advertisers often change the meaning and usage of words.
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Structural grammar became popular fifty years before transformational grammar.
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Semantics was also known as significs.
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Language never changes.
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Ogden was a philosophical semanticist.
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Politicians and news reporters can change meaning by quoting things out of context.
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Structural grammar has now gained acceptance as an improvement over traditional grammar.
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The word semantics is derived from the Greek word semantikos that means
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signification
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are the word parts which mark case, gender, and number.
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inflections
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Traditional grammar was originally patterned after--- grammar.
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latin
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Koine Greek means Greek.
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common
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Many catchy phrases and some new words come into American English by way of _____.
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ad
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The levels of usage can be classed as intimate, conference, frozen, _____.
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formal, and casual
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A suggested meaning of a word that differs from the dictionary meaning is called a
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connotation
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Many Palestinians in the time of Christ spoke _____.
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Aramaic
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The case in Latin that is used for direct objects is _____.
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accusative
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The smallest meaningful part of a word is called a(n) _____.
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morpheme
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_____ was a structural linguist.
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Edward Sapir
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Structural grammarians list three types of fallacies in traditional grammar--logical fallacies, normative fallacies, and _____.
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semantic fallacies
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The one morphological classification that has no name refers to what are called _____.
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empty word
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Another term for generative grammar is _____.
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transformational grammar
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The language used in textbooks is called _____.
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frozen
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Symbolic logic is also known as _____.
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philosophical semantics
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The grammatical system in which sentence structures are derived by transforming kernel sentences is
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generative
