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What are the 5 rules of language?


There are five main components of language are,
1.    Phonemes
2.  Morphemes
3.  Lexemes
4.  Syntax
5.  Context. 

These components work together with grammar, semantics, and pragmatics to create meaningful communication between individuals.
1.    Phonemes
A phoneme is one of the sound units in a particular language that distinguishes one word from another. For example, in most English dialects, the sound patterns and two separate words are distinguished by one phoneme being substituted for another.

2.  Morphemes
A morpheme is a language's smallest grammatical unit. A morpheme is not the same as a word, and the main difference between the two is that a morpheme may or may not be standing alone, while a word is standing alone by definition.

 Morphology is the linguistic field of study dedicated to morphemes.

3.    Lexemes
A lexeme is a lexical meaning unit that exists irrespective of how many inflectional endings it may have or how many words it may contain. It is a fundamental unit of meaning that is abstract.

4.  Syntax
Syntax is the set of rules, principles and processes in linguistics that govern the structure of sentences in a given language, usually including word order. The term syntax is also used to refer to these principles and processes being studied.


5.  Context
Context refers to those objects or entities in semiotics, linguistics, sociology, and anthropology that surround a focal event of some sort, typically a communicative event in these disciplines. Context is "a framework that surrounds the event and provides adequate interpretation resources."



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