“John killed Bill but Bill didn’t die” is a (n) （）.

locutionary act

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

ethnic dialect

The pair of words “l(fā)end”and “borrow”are（）.

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

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 （）.

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

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