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THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 108
Table 18.1 continued
Term Area 1 Area 2
active syntax: a verb which has an lexicology: of words which you
agent as its subject, opposed actually use as opposed to those
to passive which are merely recognised
analytic morphology: used of a semantics: used of a statement
language in which (ideally)
every word comprises a
single morpheme
which is necessarily true
argument general: a reasoned attempt syntax: an element which
to convince obligatorily accompanies a verb
blocking morphology: the lack of a psycholinguistics: the inability
particular word because its to produce a particular word
meaning has already been because you can only think of
pre-empted by another word
clinical linguistics: in
stuttering, an impediment to
uttering a required sound
a closely related word
bound morphology: of a morpheme syntax: of elements which are
which cannot form a word
form on its own
coindexed
checked phonology: the name of a phonology: of a vowel, followed
distinctive feature used for by a consonant in the same
glottalisation syllable
class phonology, morphology, sociolinguistics: socio-economic
syntax, semantics: a set of items status seen as a correlate of
which share some property linguistic variation
closed phonology: of a syllable, syntax: of a class of words whose
ending in a consonant members can in principle be listed
coda phonology: consonants discourse analysis: that part
occurring after the peak of a of an interaction which
syllable summarises and completes
the interaction or
narrative
command speech-act: an order or to syntax: a relationship defined
order over nodes in a phrase-structure
tree; to stand in such a relationship
to another node
common morphology: a gender syntax: of a noun which is not a
comprising both masculines
and feminines
proper noun
comparative morphology, syntax: a form historical linguistics: involving
used to compare two things, comparing different languages
as bigger, more intelligent or dialects