The arbitrary nature of language makes it possible for language to have an unlimited source of expressions.

Discuss any FOUR of the features of human language that distinguish it from animal communication system.

New words can be formed in many ways. Please illustrate borrowing, compounding, blending and back-formation, each with two examples.

the naming theory

illocutionary act

surface structure

intrapersonal communication

perlocutionary act

behaviourism as a semantic view

expressives

the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis