According to the____that affixes occupy in words, affixation falls into prefixation and suffixation.

____ is the relationship between language and the world.For example, the form cat is meaningful because the language user employs it conventionally to refer to the “animal” concerned.

The development of word-meaning from monosemy to polysemy follows two sources, traditionally known as ____ and concatenation.

The word computer formerly meant a “person who computes”. At present, it refers to an“electronic machine” rather than a person. This example shows the fact that it often happens a word is retained for a name though the ____ has changed because the referent has changed.

____ context refers to the words that occur together with the word in question. The meaning of the word is often affected and defined by the neighboring words.

Phrasal verbs are idioms which are composed of a ____ plus a prep, and/or a particle.

For someone who needs a dictionary by their side to check spelling, or the meaning of an occasional word from his/her reading, a____dictionary can be good.

content words

morpheme

onomatopoeic motivation