Semantics

Sociolinguistics is the study of language in relation to society.

Both semantics and pragmatics study meanings.

Chomsky defines “competence” as the ideal user’s k（）of the rules of his language.

Findings in linguistic studies can often be applied to the settlement of some practical problems. The study of such applications is generally known as a（）linguistics.

A diachronic study of language is the description of language at some point in time.

The discipline that studies the rules governing the formation of words into permissible sentences in languages is called s（）

Modern linguistics regards the written language as primary, not the written language.

Syntax is different from morphology in that the former not only studies the morphemes, but also the combination of morphemes into words and words into sentences.

The study of meaning in language is known as semantics.