Semantics

Pragmatics is different from semantics in that pragmatics studies meaning not in isolation, but in context.

The distinction between competence and performance was proposed by F. de Saussure.

Syntax

Modern linguistics is mostly prescriptive, but sometimes descriptive.

General linguistics is generally the study of language as a whole.

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 the ways in which morphemes can be combined to form words is called morphology.

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