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THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 114
Table 18.1 continued
Term Area 1 Area 2
relevance morphology: the importance of pragmatics: a mechanism for
a semantic link between an constraining interpretations of
affix and the root to which it is utterances by considering the
attached environment in which the
utterance occurs
rising phonetics: of pitch or tone, phonetics: of a diphthong,
becoming higher having the second element more
prominent
root phonetics: that part of the morphology: the part of a word
tongue which lies opposite the which remains when all affixes
pharynx wall
syntax: the initial node in a tree
have been removed
simple morphology: expressed
without periphrasis
syntax: having a single clause
soft phonetics, historical linguistics:
coronal and/or fricative
phonetics: palatalised
strong phonology, historical morphology: a label for certain
linguistics: not likely to change
phonology: relatively prominent
inflection classes
subject pragmatics, rhetoric: the matter syntax: the sentence element which
being discussed is normally taken to denote the
undertaker of the action of the
verb
tag syntax: a brief addition to a corpus linguistics: a label given to
sentence, e.g. That’s her, isn’t each word in a text which provides
it? information about that word,
e.g. word class
tense phonetics: an ill-defined quality morphology/syntax: a
of the muscles of the vocal tract morphosyntactic category
in the production of some
vowels, now usually replaced
by a feature [±ATR]
referring to time
topic pragmatics, rhetoric: the matter syntax: an element emphasised
under discussion
discourse, syntax: the element
in a sentence about which
something is said
prosodically or by syntactic
movement to indicate
importance in the utterance
variable phonology, syntax: any symbol sociolinguistics: a position in
in a rule whose content is not the linguistic system where
specified by the rule variation between two or
more possible forms is