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| nourishing human connection through act of talking, no matter what it's about |
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| ability to talk about things that are not in the immediate environment (signs) |
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| relationship between three things: Interpreter, signifying form, signified thing |
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| type of sign where connection between signifier and signified is arbitrary and conventional. (proof that language is arbitrary: homophones are identical symbols for different concepts) |
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| natural signs (onomatopoeia) |
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| set of morphs with similar pronunciation and function but differ somewhat depending on the word they are used in (ex. grandCHILD and grandCHILDren are both morphemes of CHILD) |
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| can appear as a separate, freestanding word (DAG-z) |
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| cannot appear as a separate word (dag-Z or KEP-t) |
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| morpheme that expresses the main meaning of a word - can be free or bound |
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| phones inside the base are changed (sing -> sang), this term can also apply to stress shift or tone shift. |
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| no overt change at all (water (noun) becomes water (verb)) |
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| the affix is a string of phonemes that just attaches to the base (re- or -less in English) |
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| sentence that contains a sentence that contains a sentence |
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| Complex sentence that could be simple - "It is you that I remember" |
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| Direct ancestor of Latin Script |
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| Cuneiform (developed by Sumerians) |
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| Egyptian Hieroglyphics - pictograms (hieratic = simplified version) |
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| signify ideas - numbers, chemical formulas, musical notation. |
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| Ogham - used to write Irish |
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| Hangeul - used to write korean |
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| Phoenician script used to write semitic languages. Direct ancestor of Latin language |
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| signify individual morphemes |
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| characters that represent objects in the real world. |
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| a, an, the, this, these, that, each (grammatical category like adjectIVE) |
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| A causer who acts intentionally and cautiously |
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| A person or thing affected by an action, including a thing moved or created |
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| A conscious perceiver or feeler. VICTOR loves susan |
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| The thing that causes a perception or feeling |
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| A conscious being who receives or benefits from the action |
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| most common word order in language |
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