The compound word "bookstore" is the place where books are sold. This indicates that the meaning of a compound is the sum total of the meanings of its components.

“John killed Bill but Bill didn’t die” is a (n) （）.

locutionary act

As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, and not to lay down rules for "correct" linguistic behavior,it is said to be （）.

Of the three branches of phonetics, the longest established, and until recently the most highly developed, is（）phonetics.

The sentence “The baby smiled.” is a（）.

The semantic components of the word “gentleman” can be expressed as（）.

A sentence is a （） concept, and the meaning of a sentence is often studied in isolation.

What the element ‘-es’ indicates is third person singular, present tense, the element ‘-ed’ past tense, and ‘-ing’ progressive aspect. Since they are the smallest unit of language and meaningful, they are also（）.

All words may be said to contain a root morpheme.