locutionary act

The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is good proof that human language is （）.

As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, and not to lay down rules for "correct" linguistic behavior,it is said to be （）.

What the element ‘-es’ indicates is third person singular, present tense, the element ‘-ed’ past tense, and ‘-ing’ progressive aspect. Since they are the smallest unit of language and meaningful, they are also（）.

Componential analysis is based on the belief that the meaning of a word cannot be dissected into meaning components, called semantic feature.