protolanguage

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

Why do we say tree diagrams are more advantageous and informative than linear structure in analyzing the constituent relationship among linguistic elements Support your statement with examples?

locutionary act

acculturation

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

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

Duality

“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.

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