The Nature of Language

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Across
  1. 2. a phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be understood in the ordinary sense
  2. 4. fourteenth-century translator of the English Bible
  3. 5. the study of word forms and how they are affected by their origins
  4. 7. the branch of linguistics dealing with meaning
  5. 8. an ancient country which is now Iraq
  6. 10. the branch of linguistics dealing with pronunciation
  7. 13. a churchman such as pastor or bishop
  8. 14. a group of pastors or priests
  9. 16. a high tower with many stories, each one smaller than the one below
  10. 18. a form of noun, pronoun, or adjective that shows its relation to other words
  11. 19. the ancient language from which Indo-European comes
  12. 20. the only one of its kind
  13. 21. ancient people of the British Isles
Down
  1. 1. translator of the Bible in the sixteenth century
  2. 3. a form of speech that varies from the standard
  3. 6. a piece of land almost surrounded by water
  4. 9. study of cities, artifacts, and customs of the ancient world
  5. 11. to leave one's own country to live in another
  6. 12. the branch of linguistics dealing with word order
  7. 15. having to do with language or the study of languages
  8. 17. poet of the fourteenth-century England