Modern linguistics regards the written language as primary, not the written language.

Human capacity for language has a g（）basis, but the details of language have to be taught and learned.

Pragmatics is different from semantics in that pragmatics studies meaning not in isolation, but in context.

Syntax is different from morphology in that the former not only studies the morphemes, but also the combination of morphemes into words and words into sentences.

Linguistics

Language

Modern linguistics is mostly prescriptive, but sometimes descriptive.

Modern linguistics is different from traditional grammar.

A scientific study of language is based on what the linguist thinks.

Morphology studies how words can be formed to produce meaningful sentences.