__________ is the study of systems of meaning in a language
a. Syntax
b. Morphology
c. Semantics
d. Linguistics
c
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Big Trucking Company has purchased a $100,000 dump truck that has a useful life of 8 years. After the first year of use, the market value of the dump truck falls to $70,000. If the highest one-year return available is 10 percent, what is the one -year return from selling the dump truck?
A) $10,000 B) $7,000 C) $60,000 D) $70,000
Which of the following statements about Ardipithecus kadabba is FALSE?
A. It lived during the late Miocene, between 5.8 and 5.5 million years ago. B. Its bipedalism is still questioned because none of the fossil bones found was a pelvis or a femur. C. Its fossils belong to individuals that were apelike in size, anatomy, and habitat. D. It is recognized as the earliest known hominin, with the Toumai find from Chad, dated to 7-6 m.y.a., and Orrorin tugenensis from Kenya, dated to 6 m.y.a., as possibly even older hominins. E. The kadabba find consists of eleven specimens, including a jaw bone with teeth, hand and foot bones, fragments of arm bones, and a piece of collarbone.
Egypt's first pharaoh was named:
A. Badarian. B. Tut. C. Gerza. D. Amratian. E. Narmer.
Sociolinguists
a. study the structures (phonology and morphology) of a language. b. focus on how people actually speak in any given social situation. c. study language change over time. d. study language families and the relationships between different lexicons. e. study how non-standardized forms of language are related to other languages.