Most morphemes are realized by ____ morphs like bird, tree, green, etc. Words of this kind are called monomorphemic words.

A green hand means an “inexperienced person”,not “a hand that is green in color”. This example illustrates that compounds are different from free phrases in ____ unity.

Tables, men and potatoes are all plural nouns, so we can say they have the same ____ meaning.

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

The change of the meaning in the word “butcher”，which originally denoted “one who kills goats”，but has come to mean “one who kills animals” reflects ____ in the sense of word-meaning change.

Linguistic context can be subdivided into ____ context and grammatical context.

Idioms consist of set phrases and short ____, which are peculiar to the language in question and loaded with the native cultures and ideas.

Bilingual dictionaries are written in ____ languages.

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