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Fill in the blanks （1） Arbitrariness of language makes it potentially creative, and conventionality of language makes learning a language laborious. For learners of a foreign language, it is this feature of language that is more worth noticing than its arbitrariness.（丿l连夕卜院 2008） （2） Human language is arbitrary: Tlus refers to the fact that there is no logical or intrinsic connection between a particular sound and the meaning it is associated with. （A A 2007） （3） human languages enable their users to symbolize objects, events and concepts which are not present at the moment of communication. This quality is labeled as displacement.（北二夕卜 2006） （4） Halliday proposes a theory of metafimctions of language, that is, language has ideational, interpersonal and textual hmctions.（中山人学 2008） （5） Our language can be used to talk about itself. This is the metalingual（7Cin ft） function of language.（中山大学 2005 ） （6） when language is used for establishuig an atmosphere or maintaining social contact rather than exchanging information or ideas, its function is pliatic fimction.（北二夕卜 2005） （7） Pragmatics can be defined as the study of language in use. Sociolingiiistics, on the other hand. attempts to show the relationship behveen language and society. （8） Descriptive grammars attempt to tell what is in the language, while prescriptive grammars tell people what should be in the language. Most conteinporaty linguists believe tliat whatever occurs naturally ui the language should be described.（人人 2006） （9） The description of a language as it changes through time is a Diachronic （历时） Linguistic study. lO.There are two fields of morphology: the study of inflectional and the study of derivational. （人大2006研） A bound morpheme is one that cannot constitute a word by itself.（北二夕卜 2003） Affix is the collective term for the type of formative that can be vised only when added to another morpheme. Affixes are limited in number in a language. and are generally classified into （北邮）tliree subtypes, na