The vocabulary of any language never remains stable; it is constantly changing.
判断题2019-05-03 13:49:51
0253 感兴趣题目
Among the four words accepting, accepted, acceptance and acceptable, the first two are derived from derivation, while the latter two from inflection.-ed in short-sighted is an inflectional morpheme.In the English vocabulary, foreign elements made up a much bigger part in number than the native element.Answering the question “Will you marry me?” with “Yes, I will”, the speaker is using substitution.Lexical semantics is not only a subset of lexicology, but also a subset of semantics.The word safe means the same in The child is safe and The beach is safe.In the sentence, “More hands are needed on the farm”, metonymy is employed.“Pragmatic meaning” can also be referred to as “contextual meaning”.Comparatively speaking, ask is more formal than interrogate.AmE and BrE shares all grammatical rules.Connotative meaning of a word is relatively stable and insensitive to the change of context.The word nice has gone through a semantic change called “generalization”. 
