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22 Cards in this Set
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STANDARD LANGUAGE |
a language variety used by a group of people in their public discourse |
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CONQUEST THEORY |
a theory that explains the process by which the Occident overtook China as the major economic and industrial power |
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AGRICULTURAL THEORY |
diffusing language into Indo-Europe through the use of agriculture |
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LANGUAGE REPLACEMENT |
speech community of a language shifts to speaking another language |
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BILINGUAL |
able to speak two languages |
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MULTILINGUAL STATES |
states in which the majority of people are able to speak two or more languages |
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MONOLINGUAL STATES |
states in which the people all speak the same language |
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DESCRIPTIVE NAMES |
a name or trademark that clearly describes the person or object it is named for |
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ASSOCIATIVE NAMES |
of or relating to a certain name |
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INCIDENT NAMES |
naming an unexpected event or circumstance, usually unpleasant |
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POSSESSIVE NAMES |
name related to possession or ownership |
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COMMEMORATIVE NAMES |
a name given to remind people of an important person or event in the past |
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COMMENDATORY NAMES |
a name given to commend someone or something as a reminder of an important event or action |
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MANUFACTURED NAMES |
a made-up, or fabricated name |
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SOUND SHIFTS |
a systematic change in the pronunciation of a set of speech sounds as a language evolves |
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ESPERANTO |
an artificial language devised in 1887 as an international medium of communication, based on roots from the chief European languages |
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LANGUAGE |
the human ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication |
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TOPONYMY |
the study of place names, their origins and meanings |
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PRELITERATE SOCIETIES |
societies that have not developed writing |
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LANGUAGE FAMILIES |
a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor |
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DIALECTS |
a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group |
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ISOGLOSSES |
a line on a dialect map marking the boundary between linguistic features |
