A Basic Course in Anthropological Linguistics (Studies in Linguistic ...

184 A BASIC COURSE IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS
ideograph
illocutionary act
inflection
inflectional morpheme
intonation
irony
isolating language
J
jargon
L
langue
lexeme
lexical field
lexicography
lexicon
lexicostatistics
linguistic competence
linguistic performance
loanword
symbol that is partly pictographic and partly
abstract .
type of speech act that specifies a call to action:
e.g., Come here!
affix added internally in a morpheme: e.g., the
- li- in friendliness.
change in the form of a word.
morpheme that results from inflection.
pitch and tone in language.
word or statement used in such a way that it
means the opposite of what it denotes: What a
beautiful day! uttered on a stormy day.
language that forms its words primarily with
single morphemes (one morpheme = one
word).
slang of specialized groups (e.g., lawyers,
doctors, etc.).
theoretical knowledge of a language (its rules,
its structure, etc.).
morpheme with lexical meaning: e.g., the logic
in logical.
collection of lexemes that are interrelated
thematically (e.g., sports vocabulary).
dictionary-malung .
set of morphemes in a language.
mathematical study of time depth, the length
of time since two related languages became
separated.
abstract knowledge of a language.
knowledge of how to use a language.
word borrowed from another language: e.g.,
cipher was borrowed from the Arabic language.