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1. L-ge and speech.
We use language in speech.
Language is a system of signs, of meanings, of expressions, registered in different written sources.
Speech is a kind of manifestation of the system of language in the process of communication.
Language as a system consists of material and non-material parts.
The system of the language consists of material units (words, texts) and rules of their use (non-material).
Speech includes the act of producing of utterance.
The units of language form hierarchal levels:
Level of the language:
1.phonemic; 2.morphemic; 3.lexemic; 4.phrasymic;5.proposemic; 6.super-proposemic.
The unit of level:
1.phoneme; 2.morpheme 3.word form 4.phrasyme(phrase) 5.proposeme(sentence) 6.texteme(text) Meaning and function:
1.No meaning; differential function; 2.Abstract meaning; significative function; 3.Nominative; 4.Nominative/poly-nominative; 5.predication; 6.Forms a textual unity.
Every lover level takes into account previous ones.
The morphological system of the language reviews its properties through the morphemic structure of words.

2. Morpheme - the smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning. A meaningful linguistic unit consisting of a word (such as dog) or a word element (such as the -s at the end of dogs) that can't be divided into smaller meaningful parts. Morphemes are commonly classified into free morphemes (which can occur as separate words) and bound morphemes (which can't stand alone as words).
A word can be analyzed as consisting of one morpheme (sad) or two or more morphemes (unluckily; compare luck, lucky, unlucky), each morpheme usually expressing a distinct meaning. When a morpheme is represented by a segment, that segment is a morph. Free morphemes, like town and

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