Middle-Term Test of Linguistics
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I. Directions: Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A, B, C or D in the brackets. (2%×10=20%)
1. As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people actually u, and not to lay down rules for "correct" linguistic behavior, it is said to be ___.
A、 prescriptive B、 sociolinguistic
C、 descriptive D、 psycholinguistic
2016英语四级答案2. Of all the speech organs, the ___ is/are the most flexible.
A、 mouth B、 lips C、 tongue D、 vocal cords
3. The morpheme "vision" in the common word "television" is a(n) ___.
A、 bound morpheme
B、 bound form
C、 inflectional morpheme
D、 free morpheme
4. "Can I borrow your bike?" ___ "You have a bike."
A、 is synonymous with
B、 is inconsistent with
C、entails
D、 presuppos
5、The pair of words “lend”and “borrow”are ___.( )
A. gradable opposites B. relational opposites
C. co-hyponyms D. synonyms
6.The mantic components of the word “gentleman” can be expresd as __.( )
A. +animate, +male, +human, -adult
B. +animate, +male, +human, +adult
C.x atr +animate, -male, +human, -adult
D. +animate, -male, +human, +adult
7.The famous quotation from Shakespeare's play “Romeo and Juliet” ‘A ro by any other name would smell as sweet’ well illustrates _______.( )
A.the conventional nature of language
B.the creative nature of language
C.the universality of language
the act
D.the big difference between human language and animal communication
8. Of the following sound combinations, only _______ is permissible according to the
quential rules in English.( )
A.kibl B.bkil C.ilkb D.ilbk
9.The term _______ linguistics may be defined as a way of referring to the approach
which studies language change over various periods of time and at various h在线日语学校istorical
stages.
A.synchronic B.diachronic C.comparative D.historical comparative
10. ____ modify the meaning of the stem, but usually do not change the part of speech of the original word.discrete
A. Prefixes B. Suffixes C. Roots D. Affixes
II. Directions: Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are to fill in One word only, and you are not allowed to change the letter given. (2%×10=20%)
1. Chomsky defines "competence" as the ideal ur's k of the rules of his language.
2. The four sounds /p/,/b/,/m/ and /w/ have one feature in common, i.e, they are all b .
3. M is a branch of grammar which studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed.
4. The affix “-ish” in the word boyish conveys a g meaning.
5. B___________ morphemes are tho that cannot be ud independently but have to be combined with other morphemes, either free or bound, to form a word.
yuli
6. Affixes are of two types: inflectional affixes and d__________ affixes.
7. C__________ is the combination of two or sometimes more than two words to create new words.
8. M ____ is the smallest meaningful unit of language.
9. In terms of morphemic analysis, d_______________ can be viewed as the addition of affixes to stems to form new words.
10. The conceptualist view holds that there is no d______ link between a linguistic form and what it refers to.
Ⅳ. Directions: Explain the following terms, using one or two examples for illustration. (5howdoyoudo%×6=30%)
1. synchronic linguistics
2. displacement
3. derivational affixes
4. TG grammar
manato
5. hyponymy
6. morpheme
V.Paraphra the following ntence in two different ways to show the syntactic rules account for the ambiguity of ntences. (10%)
He saw young men and women prent.
VI. Consider the phras in Ancient Greek (in a Roman-bad transcription) and their unordered English translations, match the Ancient Greek phra (A-H) with the corresponding English translation (20%)
(A) ho tōn hyiōn dulos ____ (1) the donkey of the master
(B) hoi tōn dulōn cyrioi ____ (2) the brothers of the merchant
