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

Modern linguistics is different from traditional grammar.

Language

Social changes can often bring about language changes.

Phonology

P （）refers to the realization of langue in actual use.

Semantics

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

Language is p（）in that it makes possible the construction and interpretation of new signals by its users. In other words, they can produce and understand an infinitely large number of sentences which they have never heard before.

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.