Linguistics

Morphology studies how words can be formed to produce meaningful sentences.

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

Semantics

Syntax

Phonetics is different from phonology in that the latter studies the combinations of the sounds to convey meaning in communication.

A diachronic study of language is the description of language at some point in time.

Phonetics

Both semantics and pragmatics study meanings.

Modern linguistics is mostly prescriptive, but sometimes descriptive.