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

“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.

protolanguage

In English, “pill” and “bill” are （）.

Give the description of the following sound segments in English.[k];[z];[w];[u:];[i]

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

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

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（）.

inflectional morphemesn

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