Which of the following words is entirely arbitrary?
The function of the sentence ---Water boils at 100 degrees Centigrade is ______.
When a dog is barking, you assume it is barking for something or at someone that exists here and now. It couldn’t be sorrowful for some lost love or lost bone. This indicates the design feature of __________.
_______deals with language application to other fields, particularly education.
When a speaker expresses his intention of speaking, such as, asking someone to open the
window, he is performing ______.
What maxim is flouted in the examples A: Shall we get something for the kids? B: Yes. But I veto I-C-E-C-R-E-A-M.
Morphemes that represent tense, number, gender and case are called __________ morpheme.
Which of the following words’pronunciation shows deletion?
What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is whether in the study of meaning _________ is considered.
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 ___.