LIST OF LANGUAGE SUBSYSTEMS

This is a terminological list that collects terms used to denote (types of) “communicative subsystems” of a language (a communicative system). Each of them may have its sphere of application, some of them might be synonymous, and also, when ''language'' is used in a broad sense, the objects denoted by the terms are languages.

★ Standard language.
There are five major language subsystems that are common to competent speakers of a language:

★ Phonology- the system of sounds in a language, the rules for combining these sounds into words and proper stress and intonation of sentences.

★ Semantics- the meaning attached to words and sentences.

★ Morphology- the system for combining units of meaning to make words or modify word meaning.

★ Syntax- rules for organizing words into phrases.

★ Pragmatics- a set of rules governing when to use language and what sort of language should be used in front of members of certain groups.

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Dialect–language distinction

Code-switching

See also

Dialect–language distinction

Dialect, language; idiom; Abstandsprache, Ausbausprache, Dachsprache.

Code-switching

Code, subcode.
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See also

★ Variety (linguistics)