“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.

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（）.

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

inflectional morphemesn

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（）.

The sentence structure is （）.

protolanguage

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.

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