Tolkien is creating a new language called Elvish for a race of characters in his upcoming book. After a long writing session, he smiles and says, “There. I finally have the rules for combining symbols in Elvish.” In other words, Tolkien has created the ____ of the language
a. ?grammar
b. ?semantics
c. ?phonemes
d. ?surface structure
ANSWER:
a
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