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!n thc same *pirir. thc field of lingutstic cheOry may bc said to inelude m lca« four major subfictd*. The- łirvt i> concemed with thc środy of speech suunds. a subject which in modern Mracrong linguistics is handlcd on oso theoretkał lev<?!s Of thesc the fcvrł of phonology is concemed with thc tutKtkming of sound-Wlthin łht* tjwms of indwidual bo.guas«, whcicas that of phoo-crics is concemed with the naturę and typology of speech sound* in themselvrs. Tlie *econd major subtidd w that of »vnux (fre A Greek w ord mcanmg a ‘putcing togethec' or ‘artangmg' of t mctir.s), which traditionally corers hoth thc construccions phraset and semenco and atso fcaturcs of mc.ining which asweiated with thetw, ForcxampJc, the lnic iroga twe (Has be s the gong?) is diffcrent both in cotutroction and in mcaning ff-the Non irttcrrogatisc ot Declarativc {He has sold thc gongi. T thitd Mibhefd of icminiks then rcdoccs to thc Siudy of wo nseanmgs—to which perhaps we may add the mc-anings of id*

... oroi speeial phrasc* gencraliy. Traditionally the probtems setnanties have often bcen assigned to thc diefionary. Howevct; thc oppOMtmnc of Word mcanings abo lend tbcm*clves i tural aaalysb. most noubly in spccific •scmantic fields’ soch as those of kiiwhip, colour terms, occupatiotis. types of skill and knowkdgc and w on. In addiifon, the limit* of <yntax and «cm*n-tics hate lrcć)ucntly beto dtsputcd both within and betwecn thc various striKtutaf cchootf. According to somc, comiructional mcanings wotild a ho bdong to semantics— syntax be mg rcduonl to the fcMtnal distnbution of word* and group* of words. Othct writers make a further disnnenon betwecn semanttes, as a study of the mcanings of words and scnrrnce* in thc abstract. aad prug-matics, as that of sentences used in spcctfic situations. According to others, syntnx itselł t« partly a inaticr of word mcanings: for examplc. it is implicit in the mcaning of ‘to scll' or ‘tu hit' that « can take an Objęci On many such issiKS. thc dcKtłc rontinue* in fuli vigour.

Tlse last major lublicld i» that of morphotogy ... that branch of hngutstws which o cotKtrncd with thc 'fotms of word*' in dilfee-mt usrs and connruciion*.

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