Language is a system i.e a functionally determined, structured aggregate of elements; a language system is the totaly of minds in the entire language community
A social system:
The patterned series or interrelatiionship existing between individuals, groups, and institutions and forming a coherent whole: social structure
There are 3 facets to every system.
The substantive facet
The functional facet
Communicative aproach
Situational
Functional
A language system consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly th human ability o do so.
Six distinct stages in the languagecsystem.
3.-Affixal words with blurred intermorphemic borders
2.-Compounds.i.e used as alexical units
1.-Phrases of two the highest degree of analytic formation
A language System comprises three subsystems:
Grammar: Arrange words into sentences reflecting thoughs exchanged in speech communication.
Morphology
Syntax
Lexical: Linguistics .The set of all words and phrases in a language.Reflect the entire range of thing and phenomena in the ambient world.
Phonology. Provide the items and products of the two other subsystems
Linguistic clasified at 3 levels.
Syntax : Study of the sentence structure
Morphology: Is the identification, analysis and description of the structure of morphemes and other units of meaning in a languaje such as words,affiixes, parts of speech.
Phonology:Is the one step up from phonetics and the organizationl aspects of sound within language
