protolanguage

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 （）.

In English, “pill” and “bill” are （）.

“The student” in the sentence “The student liked the linguistic lecture”, and “The linguistic lecture” in the sentence “The linguistic lecture liked the student.” belong to the same syntactic category.

According to the ways antonyms differ, how many groups can we classify antonyms into?

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

All words may be said to contain a root morpheme.

The relationship between the embedded clause and its matrix clause is one of a part to the whole.

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