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 （）.

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

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

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

The pair of words “lend”and “borrow”are（）.

registers

“It is raining hard” is a one-place predication sentence.

What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is whether in the study of meaning （）is considered.

The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is good proof that human language is （）.

acculturation