All words may be said to contain a root morpheme.

In modern linguistic studies, the written form of language is given more emphasis than the spoken form for a number of reasons.

Only when a maxim under Cooperative Principle is blatantly violated and the hearer knows that it is being violated, do conversational implicatures arise.

“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.

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（）.

ethnic dialect

Componential analysis is based on the belief that the meaning of a word cannot be dissected into meaning components, called semantic feature.

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.

The sentence structure is （）.

A general difference between phonetics and phonology is that phonetics is focused on the production of speech sounds while phonology is more concerned with how speech sounds distinguish meaning.