Matching Pairs LinguisticOnline version Match the terms in column “A” to the ones in column “B”. by Melani Briggitte Martinez Cevallos 1 Semantics 2 Main branches of Linguistics 3 Phonology 4 Linguistics 5 Syntax 6 A person’s purpose of knowing about linguistics 7 A person’s purpose of knowing about linguistics 8 Morphology 9 Language Phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. The scientific study of human language and its structure. The study of the meaning of words and sentences The study of word derivation and word inflection in terms of constituent morphemes. language is a rule-based system of signs The study of the phonemes and their combinations in words. To analyse and understand how languages work To get the most benefits in everything they do by understanding a language and using it efficiently. The study of sentence formation.