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Review ALL of your class notes (make sure you've gotten notes from any classes you may have missed). Review ALL of the chapter reading assignments and homework problems. Also, look over the midterm study guide.

Terms & Concepts

• syntax, trees, PSRs, ordering, constituency, basic word orders (SVO, etc),
• semantics, sense, reference, lexical, compositional, hyponym, synonym, antonym, converse, entailment,
• pragmatics, implicature, Grice's maxim, conversational theory deixis, utterance meaning v. speaker's meaning, presupposition,
• language variation, language features that vary, external correlates such as geography, age,…, motivators of variation
• language contact, coordinate bilingualism (adstratum), subordinate bilingualism, (superstratum, substratum),
• language change, features that change, sound change processes and examples, morphological change, semantic change, comparative reconstruction, internal reconstruction, motivators of language change
• language acquisition, first (FLA) v. second language acquisition (SLA), stages in FLA, nativism, grammar construction,