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Language Structure and UseAh, Language !Verbal Language is unique to human beings. It allows us to express our deepest feel-ings, our broadest concepts, our highest ideals. It takes us beyond the here and now, and even beyond the possible by means of Language , we might join the attackers at the siege of Troy or journey through the looking glass with Alice. Language can connect humans as children listen to stories before the fireplace on a cold winter night; or it can, together with culture, divide two peoples into bitter sectarian war-fare. Language communicates the heights of joy and the depths of equalizes preschoolers as well as professors can be considered native speakers of their first Language . Alternatively, Language reflects inequality dialect distinctions often demarcate social class.

Chapter One Language Structure and Use 15 tense morpheme (-d, -ed, -t) may be dropped, just as the second-person inflection (-est, as in “thou goest”) has disappeared. Language Is Complex Without question, using language is one of the most complex of human activities, providing

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