1. Linguistic Jeopardy 10 20 30 40 50 Syntactic Structure Death
Starts with a plosive
Georgia on my brain
Potpourri 10 20 30 40 50

2. It’s the node that the auxiliary moves to in Subject-Aux inversion.
What is Comp? (10)
Category

3. A string of words that is exhaustively dominated by a single node.
What is a constituent? (20)
Category

4. It’s the node that immediately
dominates the grammatical
subject in English
What is S? (30)

5. The phenomenon in which the
logical object of a sentence
becomes the grammatical subject.
What is passivization? (40)

6. The number of traces in the following sentence:
Did John say that the book was stolen?
What is two? (50)

7. The endangered language spoken in the southern part of Korea.
What is Jeju-eo? - 10

8. The percentage of the world’s languages that is expected to go extinct by the year 2100.
What is 50%? (20 points)

9. A language is said to be this if only a very small handful of elderly speakers speak it.
What is moribund? (30 points)

10. The critically endangered language spoken in Hokkaido
What is Ainu? (40 points)

11. The area of greatest linguistic diversity in Australia.
What is the central north? (50)

12. past, present and future
What is are tenses? (10)

13. The field of study that concerns itself with implicatures and Gricean Maxims?
What is pragmatics? (20)

14. Any sound produced with both lips.
What is bilabial?
(30)

15. A proposition whose truth is taken for granted in order to utter another sentence.
What is a presupposition? (40)

16. The stage of language acquisition where function words are still missing but sentences contain more than two words.
What is telegraphic? (50)

17. Language is lateralized on
this half of the brain.
What the left half? (10)

18. The lobe that contains Broca’s area.
What is the frontal lobe? (20)

19. A kind of aphasia with fluent speech, relatively intact grammar, but complete loss of meaning.
What is Wernicke’s aphasia? (30)

20. This gene is found in a
number of species and has
been implicated in language.
What is FOXP2? (40)

21. This bundle of nerves is severed in split-brain individual, preventing communication between the two halves of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum? (50)

22. The part of grammar that is uniform
and invariant across all humans.
What is Universal Grammar? (10)

23. A language with no known relatives is known as this.
What is an isolate? (20)

24. Dene-Yeniseian is the 2nd language
family found with languages indigenous
to these two continents.
What are Asia and North America? (30)

25. This pragmatic phenomenon
can be cancelled, while
presuppositions cannot.
What is an implicature? (40)

26. This effect refers to the inability of a
child to articulate two contrastive
sounds even though the child can
perceive the difference.
What is the fis-effect? (50)