“Tables, men, potatoes” have the same ______ meaning, for they have the same plural meaning.

Analyze and comment on the fundamental difference between the processes of radiation and concatenation with the words neck and treacle.

How do you account for the semantic change in the living languages?

What are contextual clues? Find out the meanings of the words in bold type and tell what contextual clues have helped you in arriving at the meanings.

A、 Do you know the architect? He designed St. Paul's Cathedral.

B、 The book was only published posthumously, for the author had been dead for three years already.

C、 It is undesirable to write with too many parentheses, a pair of brackets round word or phrases.

Analyze and comment on the three causes of meaning change within the scope of the extra-linguistic factors, each with example word(s) given below.pen, atom churl copperhead

Why, in modern English, were word endings mostly lost with just a few exceptions?

desk dictionaries

What are the differences between inflectional affixes and derivational affixes?

synchronic approach

onomatopoeic

clipping