Question

One of the major characteristics of human language is that it allows us to refer to things remote in time and space. This characteristic is called __________. A. displacement B. hierarchical structure C. arbitrariness D. productivity

Answer 1

Displacement

Step-by-step explanation:

Displacement, the ability to refer to things that are spatially and temporally remote, is one of the important features of human language. Because there is no "correct" word for anything, neither language has one for numbers or anything else.