LANGUAGE AND CULTURE MIDTERM EXAM, OCTOBER 14, 1999

BRIEFLY IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING TERMS, 2POINTS EACH, TOTAL 40 POINTS

 
1. Cryptotype
2. The Hopi "Objective" Realm
3. Mass Noun
4. Reactance
5. Overt Category
6. Polysynthetic Language
7. The Hopi "Inceptive"
8. Linguistic Weltanschauung
9. Indo-European Languages
10. Fabre d’Olivet
11. Phoneme
12. The Hopi "Segmentative"
13. Linguistic Relativity
14. Alveolar Trill
15. Isolating Language
16. The (Sapir)-Whorf Hypothesis
17. Linguistic Category
18. Lexical Category
19. Polysemy
20. Proto-Language

ANSWER ONLY THREE OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS FOR 20 POINTS EACH

A. Outline the types of causality in Hopi.

B. Give two examples of ‘phenotypes’ and two examples of ‘cryptotypes’ from English and Hopi.

C. Briefly discuss the proplem of ‘approximation’ in Whorf’s work.

D. What evidence does Whorf offer for the idea that our knowledge of language is unconscious?