语言学复习资料附答案(完整)
(完整版)自考《语言学概论》复习资料汇总
第一章语言和语言学1. 为什么语言和种族没有必然联系？答：语言能力和生理因素、心理因素有关，但语言不是一种生理现象，也不是一种心理现象，不是遗传的，而是一种社会现象。
语言完全是在一种语言环境中后天获得的，所以语言和种族没有必然联系。
2. 简答语言符号的特点。
答：（1）符号和语言，“能指”和“所指”。
能指是能够指称某种意义的成分，所指是给符号所指的意义内容创制了一个专门术语。
（2）语言符号的“任意性”。
符号的物质实体和表示的意义之间没有必然的理据关系，语言符号的物质实体和表示的意义之间也没有必然的理据关系，完全是任意的，约定俗成的。
（3）语言符号的强制性和可变性。
在同一社会、同一时代，对使用同一种语言的每一个社会成员来说是强制性的，而语言又是发展变化着的。
（4）语言符号的离散特性和线性特性。
话只能一个字一个字，一句话一句话地说，因此语言符号是离散的，而且在时间这根轴上是成线性排列的。
3. 组合关系和聚合关系的关系。
答：组合关系体现在一个语言单位和前一个语言单位或后一个语言单位，或和前后两个语言单位之间的关系，是横向关系。
聚合关系是在组合的某一个位置上能够相互替换，有共同的特点，故能聚合归类。
组合是横向的结构关系，聚合是归类规则，有了组合、聚合关系，便展现出了整个语言平面，聚合关系是组合关系中体现出来的，或者说是从组合关系中分析出来的，而组合关系又表现为聚合类的线性序列。
所以组合关系和聚合关系是有机地统一，不可分割。
4. 解释“符号”答：符号指根据社会的约定俗成使用某种特定的物质实体来表示某种特定的意义而形成的实体和意义的结合体。
5. 解释“语言”答：语言是言语活动中同一社会群体共同掌握的，有规律可循而又成系统的那一部分，语言是均质的，是言语活动中的社会部分。
语言作为一种社会现象具有鲜明的地区性、民族性和历史性。
6. 口语和书面语的关系。
答：语言的客观存在形式首先是口语，第二种客观存在形式，是书面语。
语言学纲要期末复习参考资料
导言一、填空题1.语言学是研究语言的学科，语言是语言学的研究对象。
语言学的基本任务是研究人类语言的规律，使人们懂得关于语言的理性知识。
2.中国、印度、希腊—罗马是语言学的三大发源地。
3.我国传统语言学包括文字学、音韵学、训诂学等三门分支学科，合称“小学”。
二、判断题1.综合各种语言的基本研究的成果，归纳成语言的一般规律，这是具体语言学的任务。
（错）2.世界上有几千种语言，有些语言的研究已经比较深入，大部分语言的研究还很不够，甚至还没有人去研究。
（对）三、名词解释1.普通语言学以人类一般语言为研究对象，探究人类语言的起源、发展、本质。
探究人类语言内部结构的共性及普遍规律的语言学门类。
2.应用语言学狭义的应用语言学指语言教学、文字的创制和改革、正音正字、词典编纂等，广义的应用语言学还包括与计算机有关的及其翻译、情报检索、语音识别、自然语言处理等。
3.小学在中国古代，小学先从教授字的形、音、义开始，就把研究文字、训诂、音韵方面的学问统称为小学。
小学一直是经学的一部分，包括音韵学、训诂学、文字学三个分支学科。
第一章一、填空题1.从语言的社会功能上看，语言是人类独有的最重要的交际和思维的工具；从语言的内部结构上看，语言是一套音义结合的符号。
2.文字是建立在语言基础之上的最重要的辅助交际工具，旗语之类是建立在语言和文字基础上的特殊领域的辅助交际工具。
二、判断1.从理论上来说，句子的长度是可以无限的。
（对）2.语言是文字基础上产生的人类最重要的交际工具。
（错）3.文字始终是从属于语言的。
（错）4.思维离不开语言，语言也离不开思维。
（对）5.语言和思维互相依存共同发展。
（对）6.在现代社会，文字比语言更加重要。
（错）7.文字也是人类最重要的交际工具。
（错）8.语言是组成社会的一个不可缺少的因素。
（对）9.会不会说话是人类和动物的根本区别之一。
（对）10．思维能力是全人类共同的，语言是各民族不同的。
（对）11.思维离不开语言，聋哑人不能掌握语言，所以聋哑人不能进行思维。
语言学复习试题及参考答案
语言学复习试题及参考答案I. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement (20 x1)1. Which of the following is not a design feature of human language?A. ArbitrarinessB. DisplacementC. DualityD. Meaningfulness2. According to F. de Saussure, _______ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.A. paroleB. performanceC. langueD. Language3. The assimilation rule assimilates one sound to another by “copying〞a feature of a sequential phoneme, thus making the two phones ____________.A. identicalB. sameC. exactly alikeD. similar4. Distinctive features can be found running over a sequence of two or more phonemic segments. The phonemic features that occur above the level of the segments are called _______.A. phonetic componentsB. immediate constituentsC. suprasegmental featuresD. semantic features5. The morpheme “vision〞in the common word “television〞is a(n) ______.A. bound morphemeB. bound formC. inflectional morphemeD. free morpheme6. The meaning carried by the inflectional morpheme is _______.A. lexicalB. morphemicC. grammaticalD. semantic7. Phrase structure rules have ____ properties.A. recursiveB. grammaticalC. socialD. functional8. The syntactic rules of any language are ____ in number.A. largeB. smallC. finiteD. infinite9. “We shall know a word by the company it keeps.〞This statement represents _______.A. the conceptualist viewB. contexutalismC. the naming theoryD. behaviourism10. “Alive〞and “dead〞are ______________.A. gradable antonymsB. relational oppositesC. complementary antonymsD. None of the above11. What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is whether in the study of meaning _________ is considered.A. referenceB. speech actC. practical usageD. context12. __________ is the act performed by or resulting from saying something; it is the consequence of, or the change brought about by the utterance.A. A locutionary actB. An illocutionary actC. A perlocutionary actD. A performative act13. Language change is ______________.A. universal, continuous and, to a large extent, regular and systematicB. continuous, regular, systematic, but not universalC. universal, continuous, but not regular and systematicD. always regular and systematic, but not universal and continuous14. In Old and Middle English, both /k/ and /n/ in the word “knight〞were pronounced, but in modern English, /k/ in the sound /kn-/ clusters was not pronounced. This phenomenon is known as ________. A. sound addition B. sound lossC. sound shiftD. sound movement15. The most distinguishable linguistic feature of a regional dialect is its _____.A. use of wordsB. use of structuresC. accentD. morphemes16. _________ means that certain authorities, such as the government choose, a particular speech variety, standardize it and spread the use of it across regional boundaries.A. Language interferenceB. Language changesC. Language planningD. Language transfer17. Human linguistic ability largely depends on the structure and dynamics of _________.A. human brainB. human vocal cordsC. human memoryD. human18. The most important part of the brain is the outside surface of the brain, called _________.A. the neuronsB. nerve pathwaysC. cerebral cortexD. sensory organs19. The development of linguistic skills involves the acquisition of ____ rules rather than the mere memorization of words and sentences.A. culturalB. grammaticalC. behaviorD. pragmatic20. According to the _______, the acquisition of a second language involves, and is dependent on, the acquisition of the culture of the target language community.A. acculturation viewB. mentalist viewC. behaviourist viewD. conceptualist view得分21. People can utter a sentence he has never heard or used before. In this sense, human language is creative.22. In English both aspirated and unaspirated voiceless stops occur. The voiceless aspirated stopsand the voiceless unaspirated stops occur in the same phonemic context or environment.23. Parameters are syntactic options of UG that allow general principles to operate in one way or another and contribute to significant linguistic variations between and among languages.24. Syntactic movement occurs to all sentences, therefore, the deep structure and surface structure of every sentence look different at its two levels of representation.25. The Anglo-Saxons were migrants from the northern parts of Europe, so the words that they originally used and the words that the English vocabulary has later taken in from other languages are regarded as loan words.26. Paul Grice made a distinction between what he called “constatives〞and“performatives〞.27. Most of the languages of Europe, Persia (Iran), and the northern part of India belong to thesame Indo-European language family. The language, which no longer exists, is called Proto-Indo-European, a term reflecting the earlier linguistic distribution of the speakers of this language family from India to Europe.28. In Black English, when the verb is negated, the indefinite pronouns something, somebody, and some become the negative indefinites nothing, nobody, and none, as in :He don’t know nothing.He don’t like n obody.He ain’t got none.29. The cerebral cortex is the decision-making organ of the body, receiving messages from all the sensory organs and initiating all voluntary actions.30.During the two-word stage of language acquisition, two-word expressions are absent of syntactic or morphological markers.III. Define Six of thefollowing ten terms, illustrate them if necessary (6 x 5).31. allomorph32. bound morpheme33. semantics34. reference35. synonymy,36. predication analysis,37. critical period hypothesis38. linguistic competence39. bilingualism4olinguisticsIV. Answer the following questions as comprehensively as possible, giving examples if necessary ( 4x10 ):1. How do you understand that language is arbitrary?2. How are semantics and pragmatics different from each other?3. Draw a tree diagram for the following statements:1 ) The people live a peaceful life in the countryside.2) He knows that I will come the day after tomorrow.4. According to the ways synonyms differ, how many groups can we classify synonyms into? Illustrate them with examples.参考答案及评分标准I. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement (20 x1) 每题一分1.D2.C3.D4.C5.D6. C7. A8. C9. B 10.C11D 12.C 13.A 14.B 15. C 16.C 17.A 18.C 19.B 20.AII. True or False (10x1) 每题一分21.T 22.F 23.T 24.F 25.F 26.F 27.T 28.T 29.T 30.TIII. Define the following terms, illustrate them if necessary (5x6). 每题五分，能够举例不举例说明的扣二分。
复习题及答案-语言学基本知识与技能
Chapter OneIntroductionI．What is linguistics?Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language. Linguistics studies not any particular language, but it studies languages in general. It is a scientific study because it is based on the systematic investigation of linguistic data, conducted with reference to some general theory of language structure.II．The scope of linguistics1. Phonetics：The study of sounds used in linguistic communication led to the establishment of phonetics.2. Phonology: deals with how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning in communication.3. Morphology: The study of the way in which morphemes are arranged and combined to form words has constituted the branch of study called morphology.4. Syntax:The combination of words to form grammatically permissible sentences in languages is governed by rules. The study of these rules constitutes a major branch of linguistic studies called syntax.5. Semantics: The study of meaning is known as semantics.6. Pragmatics: When the study of meaning is conducted, not in isolation, but in the context of language use, it becomes another branch of linguistic study called pragmatics.7. Sociolinguitics: The study of social aspects of languages and its relation with society form the core of the branch called sociolinguitics.8. Psycholinguistics relates the study of language to psychology.9. Applied linguistics: Findings in linguistics studies can often be applied to the solution of such practical problems as the recovery of speech ability. The study of such applications is generally known as applied linguistics.III. Some important distinctions in linguistics1. Prescriptive vs. descriptiveIf a linguistic study aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, it is said to be descriptive; if the linguistic study aims to lay down rules for “correct and standard”behaviour in using language, it is said to be prescriptive.2.Synchronic vs. diachronicThe description of a language at some point of time in history is a synchronic study; the description of a language as it changes through time is a diachronic study.3. Speech and writingSpeech and writing are the two major media of linguistic communication. Modern linguistics regards the spoken language as the natural or the primary medium of human language for some obvious reasons. From the point of view of linguistic evolution, speech is prior to writing. The writing system of any language is always “invented” by its users to record speech when the need arises.4. Langue and paroleThe distinction between langue and parole was made by the Swiss linguist F. de Saussure inthe early 20th century. Langue and parole are French words. Langue refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community, and parole refers to the realization of language in actual use.petence and performanceThe distinction between competence and performance was proposed by the American linguist N. Chomsky in the late 1950’s. Chomsky defines competence as the ideal user’s knowledge of the rules of his language, and performance the actual realization of this knowledge in linguistic communication.6.Traditional grammar and modern linguisticsTraditional grammar refers to the studies of language before the publication of F. de Saussure’s book Course in General Linguistics in 1916. Modern linguistics differs from traditional grammar in several basic ways.First, linguistics is descriptive while traditional grammar is prescriptive.Second, Modern linguistics regards the spoken language as primary not the written.Then, modern linguistics differs from traditional grammar also in that it does not force languages into a Latin-based framework.IV. What is language?L anguage is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.1.Design features1) ArbitrarinessLanguage is arbitrary. This means that there is no logical connection between meanings and sounds.2) ProductivityLanguage is productive or creative in that it makes possible the construction and interpretation of new signals by its users.3) DualityLanguage is a system, which consists of two sets of structures, or two levels. At the lower or basic level there is a structure of sounds, which are meaningless by themselves. But the sounds of language can be grouped and regrouped into a large number of units of meaning, which are found at the higher level of the system. This duality of structure or double articulation of language enables its users to talk about anything within their knowledge.4) DisplacementLanguage can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. This is what “displacement” means. This property provides speakers with an opportunity to talk about a wide range of things, free from barriers caused by separation in time and place. 5) Cultural transmissionHuman capacity for language has a genetic basis while the details of any language system are not genetically transmitted, but instead have to be taught and learned. This shows that language is culturally transmitted. It is passed from one generation to the next through teaching and learning, rather than by instinct.2.Functions of Language1)InformativeIt is the major role of language. The use of language to record the facts is a prerequisite of social development.2)Interpersonal functionIt is the most important sociological use of language, by which people establish and maintain their status in a society.Attached to the interpersonal function of language is its function of the expression of identity.3)PerformativeThis concept originates from the philosophical study of language presented by Austin and Searle, whose theory now forms the backbone of pragmatics.The performative function of language is primarily to change the social status of persons as in marriage ceremonies, the blessing of children and the naming of a ship at a launching ceremony. The kind of language employed in performative verbal acts is usually quite formal and even ritualized.4)Emotive functionThe emotive function of language is one the most powerful uses of language because it is so crucial in changing the emotional status of an audience for or against someone or something. e.g. God, my, Damn it...5)Phatic communionThe term originates from Malinnowski’s study of the functions of language performed by Trobriand Islanders. It refers to the social interaction of language.We all use small, seemingly meaningless expressions such as Good morning, God bless you, Nice day to maintain a comfortable relationship between people.6)Recreational functionNo one will deny the use of language for the sheer joy of using it such as a baby’s babbling.7)Metalingual functionOur language can be used to talk about itself. For example, we can use the word “book”to talk about the book.Chapter TwoPhonologyI.Speech production and perceptionA speech sound goes through a three step process. Naturally, the study of sounds is dividedinto three areas, each dealing with one part of the progress.1. Articulatory phoneticsIt is the study of the production of speech sounds.2.Acoustic phoneticsIt is the study of the physical properties of the sounds produced in speech.3.Auditory phoneticsIt is concerned with the perception of the sounds produced in speech.II.Speech organsSpeech organs are also known as vocal organs. They are those parts of the human bodyinvolved in the production of speech.Speech organs mainly consist of the vocal cords and three cavities which are the pharynx, the oral cavity and the nasal cavity.The vocal cords are in the larynx, the front part of which is called “the Adam ’s Apple.” III. ConsonantsClassification of English consonantsEnglish consonants can be classified in two ways: one is in terms of manner of articulation and the other is in terms of place of articulation.IV.VowelsClassification of English vowelsV owels may be distinguished as front, central, and back according to which part of the tongue is held highest. V owels can also be distinguished according to the openness of the mouth: close vowels, semi-close vowels, semi-open vowels, and open vowels.• Nouns Adjectives • Lips Labial / Bilabial • Teeth Dental • Alveolar ridge Alveolar • Hard palate Palatal • Soft palate Velar • Uvula Uvular• Pharynx Pharyngeal • Tip Apical • Blade Laminal • Front Dorsal •Back Dorsal• Consonants Place • /p/ /b/ Bilabial • /t/ /d/ Tip-alveolar • /k/ /g/ Back-velar • /t ʃ/ /d ʒ/ Blade/front – palato-alveolar • /m/ Bilabial • /n/ Tip-alveolar • /ŋ / Back-velar • Consonants Place • /p/ /b/ Bilabial • /t/ /d/ Tip-alveolar • /k/ /g/ Back-velar• /t ʃ/ /d ʒ/ Blade/front –palato-alveolar• /m/ Bilabial• /n/ Tip-alveolar •/ŋ / Back-velarV. Phonology and phonetics1. Phonetics is concerned with the general nature of speech sound while phonology aims to discover how speech sounds in a language form patterns and how these sounds are used to convey meaning in linguistic communication.2. Phone, phoneme, and allophone– A phone is a phonetic unit or segment. The speech sounds we hear and produce during linguistic communication are all phones.– A phoneme is a phonological unit; it is a unit that is of distinctive value. It is an abstract unit. It is not any particular sound, but rather it is represented orrealized by a certain phone in a certain phonetic context.–The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environments are called the allophones of that phoneme. For example, thephoneme /l/ in English can be realized as dark /l/, clear /l/, etc. which areallophones of the phoneme.3. Phonemic contrast, complementary distribution, and minimal pairIf the phonetically similar sounds are two distinctive phonemes, they are said to form a phonemic contrast, e.g. /p/ and /b/ in /pit/ and /bit/.If they are allophones of the same phoneme, then they do not distinguish meaning, but complement each other in distribution. For instance, the clear /l/ always occurs before a vowel while the dark /l/ always occurs between a vowel and a consonant, or at the end of a word. So the allophones are said to be in complementary distribution.When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment which occurs in the same place in the strings, the two sound combinations are said to form a minimal pair. So in English, pill and bill are a minimal pair.4. Some rules in phonologySequential rules, Assimilation rule, Deletion rule5. Supra-segmental features—stress, tone, intonationStress:Depending on the context in which stress is considered, there are two kinds of stress: word stress and sentence stress.The location of stress in English distinguishes meaning.Sentence stress refers to the relative force given to the component of a sentence. The part of speech that are normally stressed in an English sentence are nouns, main verbs, adjectives, adverbs, numerals and demonstrative pronouns; the other categories of words like articles, person pronouns, auxiliary verbs, prepositions, and conjunctions are usually not stressed.Tone:Tones are pitch variations, which are caused by the differing rates of vibration of the vocal cords. Pitch variation can distinguish meaning just like phonemes; therefore, the tone is a supra-segmental feature. The meaning-distinctive function of the tone is especially important in what we call tone languages. E.g. Chinese.Intonation:When pitch, stress and sound length are tied to the sentence rather than the word in isolation, they are collectively known as intonation. Intonation plays an important role in the conveyance of meaning in almost every language, especially in a language like English.Chapter ThreeMorphologyI. Open class and closed classIn English, nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs make up the largest part of the vocabulary. They are the content words of a language, which are sometimes called open class words, since we can regularly add new words to these classes.The other syntactic categories include “grammatical” or “functional” words. Conjunctions, prepositions, articles and pronounces consist of relatively few words and have been referred to as being closed class words since new words are not usually added to them.II. Internal structure of words and rules for word formationMorphology refers to the study of the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed.e.g. like—dislike order—disorder appear—disappear approve-–disapproveagree—disagree“dis-”is a prefix means “not”, and placed before a root-wordIII. Morphemes—the minimal units of meaningSome words are formed by combining a number of distinct units of meaning. The most basic element of meaning is traditionally called morpheme.The following list shows that in English a single word may consist of one or more morphemes.One morpheme: desireTwo morphemes: desire + ableThree morphemes: desire + able + ityFour morphemes: un + desire + able + ityIn fact every word in every language is composed of one or more morphemes.Prefixes occurs only before other morphemes while suffixes occur only after other morphemes.IV. Derivational and inflectional morphemesIn English there are morphemes which change the category or grammatical class of words. A verb, for example, is formed by adding –en to the adjective black—blacken, or by adding -ize to the noun computer—computerize.More examples: noun—adjective affection + ateAlcohol + ic-en, -ate, and –ic are thus called derivational morphemes, because when they are conjoined to other morphemes (or words) a new word is derived, or formed.Similarly, there are bound morphemes which are for the most part purely grammatical markers, signifying such concepts as tense, number, case, aspect and so on.Such bound morphemes are referred to as inflectional morphemes.V. Morphological rules of word formationThe ways words are formed are called morphological rules. These rules determine how morphemes combine to form words.Some of the morphological rules can be used quite freely to form new words. We call them productive morphological rules.Un + accept + able = un + adjective = not adjectiveVI. CompoundsAnother way to form new words, or compound words, to be exact, is by stringing words together, as shown in the examples below:Chapter FourSyntaxI. What is syntax?Synta x is a branch of linguistics that studies how words are combined to form sentences and the rules that govern the formation of sentences.II. CategoriesCategory refers to a group of linguistic items which fulfill the same or similar functions in a particular language such as sentence, a noun phrase or a verb.A fundamental fact about words in all human languages is that they can be grouped together into a relatively small number of classes, called syntactic categories.1. Word level categories are divided into two kinds: major lexical categories and minor lexical categories.2. Phrase categories and their structuresSyntactic units that are built around a certain word category are called phrases, the category of which is determined by the word category around which the phrase is built. In English syntactic analysis, the most commonly recognized and discussed phrasal categories are noun phrase (NP), verb phrase (VP), adjective phrase (AP) and prepositional phrase (PP).Whether formed of one or more than one word, they consist of two levels, Phrase level and word level as exemplified below.NP VP AP PP ←phrase level||||N V A P ←word levelPhrases that are formed of more than one word usually contain the following elements: head, specifier and complement. The word around which a phrase is formed is termed head. The words on the left side of the heads are said to function as specifiers. The words on the right side of the heads are complements.3 Phrase structure ruleThe special type of grammatical mechanism that regulates the arrangement of elements that make up a phrase is called a phrase structure rule. The phrase structural rule for NP, VP, AP, and PP can be written as follows:NP →(Det) N (PP) …VP →(Qual) V (NP) …AP →(Deg) A (PP) …PP →(Deg) P (NP) …The arrow can be read as “consist of ”or “branches into”. The parentheses mean that the element in them can be omitted and the three dots in each rule indicate that other complement options are available.4.XP ruleThe XP rule: XP →(specifier) X (complement)5. X¯ Theorya. XP → (Specifier) X¯b. X¯→ X (complement)The first rule stipulates that XP categories such as NP and VP consist of an optional specifier (a determiner, a qualifier, and so forth) and an X¯. The second rule states that an X¯consists of a head, X, and any complements.6. Phrase elementsSpecifierSpecifiers have both special semantic and syntactic roles. Semantically, they help make more precise the meaning of the head. Syntactically, they typically mark a phrase boundary. Specifiers can be determiners, qualifiers and degree words as well.ComplementsAs we have seen, complements are themselves phrases and provide information about entities and locations whose existence is implies by the meaning of the head. They are attached to the right of the head in English.The XP Rule (revised): XP → (Specifier) X (Complement*)This rule also captures the simple but important fact that complements, however many there are, occur to the right of the head in English.ModifiersModifiers specify optionally expressible properties of heads.Table 4-2 Modifier position in EnglishModifier Position ExampleAP Precedes the head A very careful girlPP Follows the head Open with careAdvP Precedes or follows the head Read carefully; carefully readTo make modifiers fit into phrase structure, we can expand our original XP rule into the following so that it allows the various options.The Expanded XP rule: XP → (Spec) (Mod) X (Complement*) (Mod)This rule allows a modifier to occur either before the head or after it. Where there is a complement,a modifier that occurs after the head will normally occur to the right of the complement as well.7. Sentences (The S rule)The S rule: S →NP VPWhich combines an NP (often called the subject) with a VP to yield a sentence such as the one bellow.Many linguists nowadays believe that sentences, like other phrases, also have their own heads. They take an abstract category inflection (dubbed “Infl”) as their heads, which indicates the sentence’s tense and agreement.8. Deep structure and surface structureThere are two levels of syntactic structure. Te first, formed by the XP rule in accordance with the head’s subcategories, is called deep structure (or D-structure). The second, corresponding to the final syntactic form of the sentence which results from appropriate transformations, is called surface structure (or S-structure).The organization of the syntactic component of the grammar can be depicted below.The XP Rule↓DEEP STRUCTURE ←（Sub-categorization restricts choice of complements）↓Transformations↓SURFACE STRUCTUREChapter FiveSemanticsI. What is semantics?Semantics can be simply defined as the study of meaning. In our discussion, we will limit ourselves to the study o meaning from linguistic point of view.II. Some views concerning the study of meaning1 The naming theoryThe naming theory was proposed by the ancient Greek scholar Plato, according to which the linguistic forms or symbols, in other words, the words used in a language are simply labels of the objects they stand for.2 The conceptualist viewConceptualist view relates words and things through the mediation of concepts of the mind. This view holds that there is no link between a linguistic form and what it refers to; rather, in the interpretation of meaning they are linked through the mediation of concepts in the mind. This is best illustrated by the classic semantic triangle or triangle of significance suggested by Ogden and Richards:3. ContextualismThe contextualist view of meaning is based on the presumption that one can derive meaning from or reduce meaning to observable contexts. Two kinds of context are recognized: the situational context and the linguistic context. The representative linguist of the view is Firth who is influenced by Molinonwsky and Wittgenstein.4. BehaviorismBehaviorists attempted to define the meaning of a language form as the “situation in which the speaker utters it and the response it calls forth in the hearer.” (Bloomfield, 1933) Behaviorism in linguistics holds that children learn language through a chain of “Stimulus-Response reinforcement”and the adult’s use of language is also a process of Stimulus-Response. For the theory, Bloomfield put forward the well-known formula:S →r …………………s →RHere S stands fro practical stimulus, r stands for the substitute reaction of speech, s stands for the substitute stimulus, and R stands for external practical reaction.III. Lexical meaning1. Sense and referenceSense and reference are two terms often encountered in the study of word meaning. They are two related but different aspects of meaning.Sense is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form. It is the collection of all the features of the linguistic form; it is abstract and de-contextualized. It is the aspect of meaning dictionary compilers are interested in.Reference means what a linguistic form refers to in the real physical world; it deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic world of experience.2. Major sense relationsSynonymySynonymy refers to the sameness or closed similarity of meaning. Words that are close in meaning are called synonyms.PolysemyWhile different words may have the same or similar meaning, the same one word may have more than one meaning. This is what we call polysemy.HononymyHononymy refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form, i.e., different words are identical in sound or spelling, or in both.HyponymyHyponymy refers to the sense relation between a more general, more inclusive word and a more specific word.AntonymyThe term antonymy is used for oppositeness of meaning; words that are opposite in meaning are antonyms.i. Gradable antonyms; ii. Complementary antonyms; iii. Relational opposites3. Sense relations between sentencesi. X is synonymous with Yii. X is inconsistent with Yiii. X entails Y. (Y is an entailment of X)iv. X presupposes Y. (Y is a prerequisite of X)v. X is a contradictionvi. X is semantically anomalous.4. Analysis of meaningComponential analysis—a way to analyze lexical meaningComponential analysis is a way proposed by the structural semanticists to analyze word meaning. By componential analysis, linguist looks at each word as a bundle of different features or components.Prediction analysis—a way to analyze sentence meaningWhether a sentence is semantically meaningful is governed by rules called selectionalrestrictions, i.e., constraints on what lexical items can go with what others.Chapter SixPragmaticsI. DefinitionPragmatics can be defined in various ways. A general definition is that it is the study of how speakers of a language use sentences to effect successful communication. As the process of communication is essentially a process of conveying and understanding meaning in a certain context, pragmatics can also be regarded as a kind of meaning study.II. ContextThe notion of context is essential to the pragmatics study of language. Context determines the speaker’s use of language and also the hearer’s interpretation of what is said to him.III. Sentence meaning vs. utterance meaningWhile the meaning of a sentence is abstract, and decontextualized, that of an utterance is concrete, and context-dependent. The meaning of an utterance is based on sentence meaning; it is the realization of the abstract meaning of a sentence in a real situation of communication, or simply in a context.IV. Speech act theory1 Austin’s model of speech actsSpeech act theory is an important theory in the pragmatic study of language. It was originated wit the British philosophy John Austin in the late 50’s of the 20th century. This is a philosophical explanation of the nature of linguistic communication. It aims to answer the question “What do we do when using language?”According to speech act theory, we are performing action when we are speaking. A speaker might be performing three acts simultaneously when speaking:locutionary act, illocutionary act, and perlocutionary act.2. Searl e’s classification of speech actAccording to Searle, an American philosophy, speech acts fall into five general categories, i.e., there are five general types of things we do with language, Specific acts that fall into each type share the same illocutionary point, but differ in their strength.1) representatives: stating or describing, saying that the speaker believes to be true.2) directives: trying to get the hearer to do something3) commissives: committing the speaker himself to some future course of action4) expressives: expressing feelings or attitude towards an existing state5) declarations: bringing about immediate changes by saying something3. Principle of conversationPaul Grice’s idea is that in making conversation, the participants must first of all be willing to cooperate; otherwise, it would not be possible for them to carry on the talk. This general principle is called the Cooperative Principle.。
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语言学概论复习资料一、名词解释1.语言的主观性：说话者在话语中表达自己的情感、态度、意图。
（互动的另一方面包括受话人受到影响，做出相应的语言或行动上的反馈。
）2.语言能力：人的抽象思维能力与灵活发音的能力有机结合。
人的语言能力的生理基础相同。
3.心理现实：贮存在人脑的人对客观现实认知的成果，是关于客观现实的各种知识信息。
其来源：①感官对客观现实的直接感知，经脑神经综合处理转化为记忆信息；②对语言文字的接收处理。
4.颤音：舌尖或小舌连续颤动而发出的音。
（是舌尖、小舌这两个柔软的尖状物处在十分放松并有气流的冲击的状态下连续颤动而发出的音。
）例如：俄语中的Р（如РУка，手）是舌尖颤音[r]。
5.闪音：舌头颤动一次发出的音。
例如：英语very中的处于弱读音节的r[ʃ]。
6.区别特征：具体语言中有区别音位作用的发音特征。
每一个音位都可以分解为几个不同的区别特征。
例如汉语普通话/ɑ/音位有不圆唇和舌位低两个发音特征；某个音位利用哪些特征和其他音位对立，这由该特征在音位系统中所处的地位而定。
例如：英语音位用清/p/浊/b/对立而不同于汉语普通话的用是否送气来区别。
7.语言节奏：语言的节奏是狭义的节奏，是语流中某些超音段要素在时间上等距离地、周期性地交替出现。
相当于音乐节拍但不如音乐规整严格。
包括音节（或韵素）型节奏和音步型节奏。
8.成句范畴：语气（陈述、疑问、祈使、感叹）、情态、时、语态等句子功能意义类别。
成句范畴有一定的表达形式，例如疑问句语气可以用语调或虚词表达。
9.黏着语：只以黏着语素替换作为表示语法关系的主要手段的语言。
例如土耳其语、维吾尔语、芬兰语等。
10.概念结构：词义之间的相互关系叫做一种语言的概念结构，词义的形成以现实现象为基础，同时也受制于本语言词义的相互关系（概念结构）。
不同的语言对现实有不同的切分，也就具有不同的概念结构。
11.中心意义：离开上下文后人们最熟悉的意义，它大多同本义一致，有时同本义不一致。
语言学复习资料答案整理
一、名词解释1.词语的替换：词语的替换是指词语所指的事物现象本身依然存在，只是用新的词语取代了旧的词语。
如由于汉语语汇发展的双音化，“目”、“颈”、“耳”、“鼻”等词被“眼睛”、“脖子”、“耳朵”、“鼻子”等词替换了。
2.义素:义素是构成义项的语义成分，是从一组相关的词语中抽象出来的区别性语义特征，又叫语义成分、语义特征、语义标示、语义原子等。
如“男人”这个义项可以分析为[男性、成年、人]，其中[男性]、[成年]、[人]就是三个义素（方括号[]是义素的标记），这三个义素组合起来，构成“男人”这个义项。
同时，义素是一种没有特定语音形式的抽象的意义单位，如“男人”的义素是[成年]，就与“男人”的语音形式无关。
3.语义指向：语义指向是句子中词语之间的语义关系，包括连续成分和非连续成分之间的语义关系。
如，小王扭伤了腰。
“腰”与“小王”、“扭”、“伤”都有语义关系。
“腰”与“小王”有领属关系，即是“小王的腰”，“腰”与“扭”、“伤”都有施事——动作关系，即“腰扭了”、“腰伤了”。
4.语法范畴:语法范畴有广义和狭义之分。
广义语法范畴是各种语法形式表示的语法意义的概括，从语法形式上看，包括所有显性语法形式和隐形语法形式；从语法意义上看，包括所有类型的语法意义，如结构范畴（主谓结构、动宾结构等结构范畴）、功能范畴（名词、动词等词类范畴）、情态范畴（陈述、疑问等语气范畴）。
狭义语法范畴是由词的变化表示的语法意义的概括，又称形态范畴。
词的形态变化是用附加词缀、内部曲折、重叠等方式构成同一个词的不同语法变化，简称词形变化。
5.表述：表述是指由句子表示的语义单位，也叫句义。
一个句子表示的一种意义就是一个表述。
有些句子可以表示几种不同的意义，每一种意义就是一个表述。
如“小李借了他五块钱”，这个句子有两种意思：一是“小李向他借了五块钱”，二是“小李借给他五块钱”，所以这个句子有两个不同的表述。
6.形态范畴：狭义语法范畴是由词的变化表示的语法意义的概括，又称形态范畴。
语言学概论复习资料(全)
语言学概论复习资料（全）一、知识题（填空与选择）：1、语言的客观存在形式，首先表现为人与人之间的口头交际行为。
2、口语是第一性的，书面语是第二性的。
3、瑞典、挪威、丹麦三个国家使用同一个语言。
4、口语和书面语包括物理现象和心理现象。
5、口头交际活动有两个因素：语言和言语。
6、瑞士语言学家索绪尔的《普通语言学教程》开创了20世纪现代语言学的新局面。
7、语言系统是由语音系统、语汇系统、语法系统、语义系统组成。
8、在任何语言中，音调变化都是语调的主要构成因素。
9、音强变化在许多语言中有区别意义的作用。
10、音质是由声波的形式决定的。
11、音质是声音四要素中最重要的。
12、人体的发音器官包括发音的动力源、发音体、共鸣腔。
13、口腔、鼻腔和咽腔是人类共鸣腔。
14、语音的物理属性和生理属性是语音的自然属性。
15、[e][ ε][a][ u ][o ][ ][ ɑ]八个音被称作定位元音或标准元音。
16、辅音的音质决定于发音部位和发音方法。
17、音位变体分条件变体和自由变体。
18、音素之间存在着对立关系和互补关系。
19、韵母分成韵头、韵腹、韵尾。
20、常见的语流音变现象有同化、异化、脱落、弱化、增音。
21、同化又可分顺同化和逆同化。
22、从音位理论的角度看，最小的音段是音位。
音位的组合又可进一步划分为音节、音节组合、语句。
23、汉藏语系包括汉语、藏语、苗语。
印欧语系一般都是非声调语言，包括英语、法语、俄语等。
24、声调可从调值和调位两方面来分析。
25、重音可分为词重音和句重音。
26、语汇学包括语汇的类聚系统和语汇的构造形式。
27、根据音节的数量将词分成单音节词、双音节词和多音节词。
根据包含语素的数量将词分成单纯词和合成词。
28、古语词包括历史词语和文言词语。
根据词的不同来源分成新造词、古语词、方言词和外来词。
29、语法分为词法部分和句法部分。
30、语法单位通常分成语素、词、词组和句子。
31、语法手段分成词法手段和句法手段。
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第一章绪论A.Define the following terms, giving examples for illustration.1. linguistics2. langue3. parole4. arbitrariness5. displacement6. language7. design features 8. performance 9. competence 10. semanticsB.Fill in each blank with one word.1.Linguistics is the scientific study of ＿＿＿.2.In professional usage, the ＿＿＿is a scholar who studies language objectively,observing it scientifically, recording the facts of language, and generalizing from them.3.When the study of meaning is conducted, not in isolation, but in the context of use, itbecomes another branch of linguistic study called ＿＿＿.4.The study of all these social aspects of language and its relation with society from thecore of the branch is called ＿＿＿.5.If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is ＿＿＿.6.The branch of study related to sounds is called ＿＿＿.7.＿＿＿relates the study of language to psychology. Modern linguistics carried out inthe century is mostly ＿＿＿, it differs from the linguistic study normally known as “grammar”.nguage refers to the ＿＿＿linguistic system shared by all the members of a speechcommunity.9.Chomsky defines ＿＿＿as the ideal user’s knowledge of the rules of his language and＿＿＿of the actual realization of this knowledge in linguistic communication.10.Five of the design features of human language are ＿＿＿, ＿＿＿, ＿＿＿, ＿＿＿,＿＿＿.C.Mark the choice that can best complete the statement.1.The study of language as a whole is often called ＿＿＿.A. general linguisticsB. sociolinguisticsC. psycholinguisticsD. applied linguistics2.The study of language meaning is called ＿＿＿.A. syntaxB. morphologyC. semanticsD. pragmatics3.The description of a language at some point in time is a ＿＿＿.A. diachronicB. synchronicC. descriptiveD. prescriptive4.＿＿＿made the distinction between langue and parole.A. ChomskyB. SapirC. HallD. Saussure5.Which of the following isn’t the design features of human language?A. ArbitrarinessB. PerformanceC. DualityD. Displacement6.Findings in linguistic studies can often be applied to the solution of some practicalproblems, the study of such applications is known as ＿＿＿.A. anthropological linguisticsB. computational linguisticsC. applied linguisticsD. mathematical linguistics7.＿＿＿refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speechcommunity.A. ParoleB. LangueC. SpeechD. Writing8.The definition “language is a purely human and non-instinctive method ofcommunicat ing ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols”was proposed by ＿＿＿.A. SapirB. HallC. ChomskyD. Bloomfield9.The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is a goodillustration of the ＿＿＿nature of language.A. arbitrarinessB. productivityC. dualityD. cultural transmission10.Which of the following isn’t a major branch of linguistics?A. PhonologyB. SyntaxC. PragmaticsD. SpeechD.Indicate the following statements true or false.1.Linguistics studies a particular language.nguage is an isolated phenomenon.3.The language a person uses often reveals his social background.nguage is human-specific.nguage is a complicated entity with multiple layers and facets, and it is possible forlinguists to deal with it all at once.6.The study of sounds used in linguistic communication is called phonetics.7.The study of all social aspects of language and its relation with society is calledsociolinguistics.8.Today, the grammar taught to learners of a language is basically prescriptive, so modernlinguistics is mostly prescriptive.9.In modern linguistics, synchronic study seems to enjoy priority over diachronic study.10.The distinction between langue and parole is the same as the distinction betweencompetence and performance.11.Linguists Sapir and Hall both treated language as a purely human institution.12.“lblk” is not a possible sound combination in English.参考答案：B. 1. language 2. linguist 3. pragmatics 4. sociolinguistics5.descriptive6. phonology7. psycholinguistics, descriptive8. abstract9. competence, performance 10. arbitrariness, productivity, duality, displacement,cultural transmissionC. 1-5ACBDB 6-10CBAADD. 1-5FFTTF 6-10TTFTF 11-12TT第二章音系学A.Define the following terms, giving examples if necessary:1.Phonetics2.Stops3.Voicing4.Allophone5.Suprasegmental features6.Phonology7.Tone8.Consonant9.Vowel10.Narrow transcriptionB.Indicate the following statements true or false:1.Of the media of language, writing is more basic than speech.2.There have been over 5,000 languages in the world, about two thirds of which have nothad written form.3.Speech sounds are limited in number.4.Of the three branches of phonetics, the longest established, and until recently the mosthighly developed, is acoustic phonetics.5.Sound [l] in the word leaf is a dark [\].6.Sound [p] in the word “spit” is an unaspirated stop.7.In English, all the front vowels and the central vowels are unrounded vowels.8.Phonology is interested in the system of sounds of a language; it aims to discover howspeech sounds form patterns and how they differ from each other.9.In English, the position of word stress distinguishes meaning.10.English is a typical tone language.11.Phonetics is of a general nature.12.Corresponding to the distinction of long and short vowels is the distinction of tense andloose vowels.C.Fill in each of following blanks.1.In linguistic evolution, ＿＿＿prior to writing.2.The three branches of phonetics are: ＿＿＿phonetics, ＿＿＿phonetics and ＿＿＿phonetics.3.The major suprasegmental features in English are: ＿＿＿＿＿＿, ＿＿＿＿＿＿and ＿＿＿.4.The major rules in phonology are ＿＿＿rule, ＿＿＿rule, and ＿＿＿rule.5.Clear [l] and dark [\] are the ＿＿＿of the phoneme [l].6.Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called ＿＿＿.7.The transcription with letter-symbols only is called ＿＿＿＿＿, the transcription withdiacritics is called ＿＿＿＿＿＿.8.In English these are two affricates, ＿＿＿and ＿＿＿.9.All the back vowels, with the exception of [a:], are ＿＿＿.10.＿＿＿can be simply defined as the speech sounds we use when speaking a language.D.Mark the choice that can best complete the statement:1.The ＿＿＿is the most flexible, and is responsible for more varieties of articulationthan any other.A. lipsB. nasal cavityC. tongueD. oral cavity2.Liquids is classified in the light of ＿＿＿.A. manner of articulationB. place of articulationC. place of tongueD. none of the above3.In English, there is only one glottal. It is ＿＿＿.A. [l]B. [h]C. [k]D. [f]4.The phonetic symbol for “voiced, labiodental, fricative” is ＿＿＿.A. [v]B. [d]C. [f]D. [m]5.The difference between [u] and [u:] is caused by ＿＿＿.A. the openness of the mouthB. the shape of the lipsC. the length of the vowelsD. none of the above6.What kind of tone is used when what is said is a straight-forward, matter-of-factstatements?A. The rising toneB. The falling toneC. The fall-rise toneD. None of the above7.In a sentence, which of the following is usually not stressed?A. NounsB. Demonstrative pronounsC. Personal pronounsD. All of the above8.Which of the following is a typical tone language?A. EnglishB. ChineseC. FrenchD. All of the above9.Two allophones of the same phoneme are said to be in ＿＿＿.A. phonemic contrastB. complimentary distributionC. minimal pairD. None of the above10.The sound [v] can be described as ＿＿＿.A．voiced, labiodental, fricativeB．voiceless, labiodental, affricateC．voiced, alveolar, fricativeD．None of the above参考答案: A. 1-5 FTTFF 6-10TTFTF 11-12TF C. 1-5 CABAC 6-10 BCBBAB. 1. speech 2. articulatory, auditory, acoustic 3. word stress, sentence stress,intonation 4.sequential, assimilation, deletion 5. allophone 6. voicing 7. broadtranscription, narrow transcription 8. [] [] 9. rounded 10. Phone第3章形态学A.Decide whether each of the following statements is T (true) or F (false).（）1. Morphology studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed.（）2. Inflectional morphology is one of the two sub-branches of morphology.（）3. The structure of words is not governed by rules.( ) 4. A morpheme is the basic unit in the study of morphology.( ) 5. Free morphemes are the same as bound morphemes.( ) 6. Sometimes bound morphemes can be used by themselves.( ) 7. There is only one type of affixes in the English language.( ) 8. Derivational affixes are added to an existing form to create a word.( ) 9. Compounding is the addition of affixes to stems to form new words.( ) 10. Phonetically, the stress of a compound always falls on the first element, while the second element receives secondary stress.B.Fill in each blank below with one word.1. __________ is the smallest meaningful unit of language.2. The affix "-es" conveys a __________ meaning.3. __________ morphemes are independent units of meaning and can be used freely all bythemselves.4. __________ affixes manifest various grammatical relations or grammatical categories such asnumber, degree, and case.5. The affixes occurring at the beginning of a word are called __________.6. The combination of two or sometimes more that two words to create new words is called__________7. Semantically, the meaning of a __________ is often idiomatic, not always being the sum totalof the meanings of its components.8. __________ morphology studies word-formation.9. A __________ can never stand by itself although it bears clears, definite meaning.10. __________ are added to the end of stems.C.There are four choices following each statement. Mark the choice that canbest complete the statement.( ) 1. The word "boyish" contains two ____________.A. phonemesB. morphsC. morphemesD. allomorphs( ) 2. Inflectional ____________ studies inflections.A. derivationB. inflectionC. phonologyD. morphology( ) 3. ____________ morphemes are those that cannot be used independently but have to be combined with other morphemes, either free or bound, to form a word.A. FreeB. BoundC. RootD. Affix( ) 4. ____________ modify the meaning of the stem, but usually do not change the part of speech of the original word.A. PrefixesB. SuffixesC. RootsD. Affixes( ) 5. There are rules that govern which affix can be added to what type of ____________to froma new word.A. rootB. affixC. stemD. word参考答案：A．1-5 TTFTF 6-10 FFTFTB. 1. Morpheme 2. grammatical 3. Free 4. Inflectional5. prefixes6. derivation7. compound8. Derivational9. root 10. SuffixesC．1-5 CDBAC第5章语义学A．Indicate the following statements T (true) or F (false).( ) 1. The conceptualist view holds that there is no direct link between a linguistic form and what it refers to (i.e. between language and the real world); rather, in the interpretation ofmeaning they are linked through the meditation of concepts in the mind.( ) 2. Sense and reference are two terms often encountered in the study of meaning.( ) 3. There are words with more or less the same meaning based in different regional dialects. ( ) 4. Componential analysis is based upon the belief that the meaning of a word can not be dissected into meaning components, called semantic features.( ) 5. One advantage of componential analysis is that by specifying the semantic features of certain words, it will be possible to show how these words are related in meaning. ( ) 6. Among the approaches to the study of meaning, the naming theory is better than others.( ) 7. Kid and child are stylistic synonyms.( ) 8. "furniture" is the superordinate of "bed".( ) 9. Antonyms contrast each other only on a single dimension, such as "live" and "die".( )10. "Cold" and "hot" are complementary antonyms.( )11. In English, there is no argument in some sentences.( )12.The sentence "Tom, smoke!" and "Tom smokes." have the same semantic predication. ( )13. The sentences that contain the same words are same in meaning.( )14. The meaning of a word is the combination of all its elements, and so is the sentence. ( )15. The meaning of the word we often use is the primary meaning.( )16. Meaning is central to the study of communication.( )17. The naming theory of meaning was proposed by the ancient Greek scholar Plato.( )18. In the classic semantic triangle, the symbol is directly related to the referent.( )19. Sense and reference are the same.( )20. Complete synonyms are rare in language.( )21. Stylistic synonyms differ in style because they come from different regions.( )22. Polysemy is the same as homonymy.( )23. Homophones are words which are identical in sound.( )24. The superordinate term is more general in meaning than its hyponyms.( )25. In a pair of gradable antonyms, the denial of one member of the pair implies the assertion of the other.( )26. In componential analysis, the plus sign is used to indicate that a certain semantic feature is present.( )27. The grammatical meaning of a sentence refers to its grammaticality.( )28. All the grammatically well-formed sentences are semantically well-formed.( )29. A predicate is something said about an argument.( )30. There is only one argument in the sentence "Kids like apples".B. Fill in each of the following blanks with one word.1.In semantic analysis, ___________ is the abstraction of the meaning of a sentence.2.___________ restrictions are constraints on what lexical items can go with what others.3.___________ analysis is based upon the belief that the meaning of a word can be divided intomeaning components4.___________ is a relation of inclusion.5.For ___________ antonyms, it is a matter of either one or the other.6.There are often intermediate form between the two members of a pair of ___________antonyms.7.The various meanings of a ___________ word are related to some degree.8.Synonyms which differ in the words they go together with are called___________synonyms.9.Linguistic forms having the same sense may have different ___________ in differentsituations.10.___________ is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form.11.___________ is based on the presumption that one can derive meaning from observablecontexts.12.There is no direct link between a linguistic form and what it refers to according to the___________ view.13.According to Wittgenstein, for a large class of cases, the meaning of a word is its___________ in the language.14.In the study of meaning, ___________ focus their interest on understanding the human mindthrough language.15.According to the ___________ theory of meaning, the words in a language are taken to belabels of the objects they stand for.16.Autumn and Fall are two ___________ ___________.17.The words of English are classified into ___________ words and ___________ words.18.Hyponymy is the relation of ___________, superordingate entails all ___________.19.“Father” and “son” are ___________ ___________.20.In the sentences of entailment, if X is true, Y is ___________.21.___________ is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form.22.___________ means what a linguistic form refers to in the real, physical world.23.The same one word may have more that one meaning, this is what we called ___________,and such a word is called ___________ word.24.___________ refers to the sense relation between a more general, more inclusive word and amore specific word.25.In semantic analysis of a sentence, the basic unit is called ___________.C．Mark the choice that can best complete the statement:( ) 1. “Lorry” and “truck” are ____________.A. dialectal synonymsB. stylistic synonymsC. synonyms that differ in their emotive meaningD. none of the above( ) 2. Which pair is the emotive synonyms ____________.A. dad, fatherB. flat, apartmentC. mean, frugalD. charge, accuse( ) 3. In the collocational synonyms, "rebuke" is collocated by ____________.A. withB. forC. ofD. against( ) 4. The noun tear and the verb tear are ____________.A. homophonesB. homographsC. complete homonymsD. none of the above( ) 5. The sentence John likes ice-cream contains ____________ arguments.A. oneB. twoC. noneD. three( ) 6. The classic semantic triangle reflects ____________.A. the naming theoryB. the conceptual viewC. the contextualist viewD. the behaviorist view( ) 7. ____________ concerns with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form; it's abstract and de-contextualized.A. ReferenceB. SemanticC. SenseD. none of the above( ) 8. The same word may have more than one meaning, which is called ____________.A. synonymyB. homonymyC. hyponymyD. polysemy( ) 9. ____________ analysis is a way to analyze sentence meaning.A. ComponentialB. PredicationC. SyntacticD. none of the above( )10. Whether a sentence is semantically meaningful is governed by rules called ____________.A. selectional restrictionsB. grammatical rulesC. phrase structure rulesD. all of the above( ) 11. Semantics can be defined as the study of ____________.A. namingB. meaningC. communicationD. context( ) 12. In the study of meaning, the ____________ are interested in understanding the relations between linguistic expressions and what they refer to in the real world.A. linguistsB. philosophersC. psychologistsD. phoneticians( ) 13. The linguistic ____________ is sometimes known as co-text.A. contextB. situationC. contextualizationD. situation of context( ) 14. Bloomfield drew on _____________ psychology when trying to define the meaning of linguistic forms.A. contextualB. conceptualistC. behavioristD. naming( ) 15. Sense and reference are two related ______________ different aspects of meaning.A. butB. andC. orD. as well as( ) 16. ____________ means what a linguistic form refers to in the real, physical world.A. SenseB. ReferenceC. MeaningD. Semantics( ) 17. Dialectal synonyms are synonyms used in different ____________ dialects.A. personalB. regionalC. socialD. professional( ) 18. Hyponyms of the same ____________ are co-hyponyms.A. wordB. lexical itemC. superordinateD. hyponymy( ) 19. Words that are opposite in meaning are ____________.A. synonymsB. hyponymsC. antonymsD. homophones( ) 20. An ____________ is a logical participant in a predication.A. argumentB. predicateC. predicationD. agentD. Define the following terms, giving examples for illustration.1. semantics2. the naming theory3. superordinate4. complete homonym5. hyponymy参考答案：A. 1-5 TTTFT 6-10 FFTFF 11-15 TTFFF 16-20 TTFFT21-25 FFTTF 26-30 TTFTFB. 1. predication 2. Selectional 3. componential 4. Entailment5. complementary6. gradable7. polysemic8. collocational9. references 10. Sense 11. Contextualization 12. conceptualist13. use 14. psychologists 15. naming 16. stylistic synonyms17. native, loan 18. entailment, hyponyms 19. relational opposites20. true 21. Sense 22. Reference 23. polysemy, polysemic24. Hyponymy 25. predicationC. 1-5 ACBBB 6-10 BCDBA 11-15 BBACA 16-20 BBCCA第6章语用学A．Decide whether each of the following statements is T (true) or F (false). ( ) 1. The contextualist view is often considered as the initial effort to study meaning in a pragmatic sense.( ) 2. Pragmatics is related to and also different from semantics.( ) 3. The notion of context is not important to the pragmatic study of language.( ) 4. All utterances take the form of sentences.( ) 5. Speech act theory was proposed by the British philosopher John Austin in the late 1950s ofthe 20th century.( ) 6. Grice made a distinction between what he called "constatives" and "performatives". ( ) 7. A locutionary act is the act of conveying literal meaning by means of syntax, lexicon, and phonology.( ) 8. In their study of language communication, linguists are only interested in how a speaker expresses his intention and pay no attention to how his intention is recognized by thehearer.( ) 9. Directives are attempts by the speaker to get the hearer to do something.( ) l0. The Cooperative Principle was proposed by John Searle.( ) 11. There are four maxims under the Cooperative Principle.( ) 12. The violations of the maxims make our language indirect.( ) 13. All the utterances take the form of sentences.( ) 15. According to the speech act theory, when we are speaking a language, we are doing something, or in other words performing acts; and the process of linguisticcommunication consists of a sequence of acts.( ) 16. All the acts that belong to the same category of illocutionary act share the same purpose or the same illocutionary act, and they are the same in their strength or force.( ) 17. All the utterances that can be made to serve the same purpose may vary in the syntactic form.( ) 18. Conversation participants nearly always observe the CP and the maxims of the CP. ( ) 19. A sentence is a grammatical concept, and the meaning of a sentence is often studied as the abstract intrinsic property of the sentence itself in terms of a predication.( ) 20. Utterance is based on sentence meaning, it is the realization of the abstract meaning of a sentence in a real situation of communication or simply in a context.( ) 22. As the process of communication is essentially a process of conveying meaning in a certain context, pragmatics can also be regarded as a kind of meaning study.( ) 23. Gradually linguists found that it would be impossible to give an adequate description of meaning if the context of language use was left unconsidered.( ) 24. What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is whether in the study of meaning the context of use is considered.( ) 25. Without the shared knowledge both by the speaker and the hearer, linguistic communication would not be possible, and without considering such knowledge,linguistic communication cannot be satisfactorily accounted for in a semantic sense. ( ) 26. An perlocutionary act is the act of expressing the speaker's intention.( ) 27. According to Paul Grice's idea, in making conversation, the participants must first of all be willing to cooperate, otherwise, it would not be possible for them to carry on the talk. ( ) 28. An illocutionary act is the consequence of or the change brought about by the utterance.B. Fill each of the following blanks with one word.1. The shared knowledge which constitutes context is of two types; the knowledge of the _____they use, and the knowledge about the _____, including the general knowledge aboutthe word and specific knowledge about the situation in which linguistic communicationis taking place.2. If we think of a sentence as what people actually utter in the course of communication, itbecomes an _____, and it should be considered in the situation in which it is actuallyused.3. The idea of Paul Grice is that in making conversation, the participants must first of all bewilling to _____; otherwise, if would be impossible for them to carry on the talk. Thegeneral principle is called the ______ ______, abbreviated as CP.4. There are four maxims under the CP: the maxim of quantity, the maxim of ______, themaxim of relation and the maxim of ______.5. The maxim of relation requires that what the conversation participants say must be ______.6. As the process of communication is essentially a process of conveying meaning in a certaincontext, ______can be regarded as a kind of meaning study.7. If ______ is not considered, the study of meaning is restricted to the area of traditionalsemantics.8. The meaning of an _______is concrete and context-dependent.9. An ______ is not considered, the study of meaning is restricted to the area of traditionalsemantics.10. According to Searle, ______ acts fall into five general categories.11. ______ are those speech acts whose point is to commit the speaker to some future course ofaction.12. To ask someone to pass a book is obviously a ______.13. According to Paul Grice, in making ______, the participants must first of all be willing tocooperate.14. Most of the violations of the four maxims give rise to ______ implicatures.15. The significance of Grice’s ______ Principle lies in that it explains how it is possible for thespeaker to convey more than is literally said.C．There are four choices following each statement. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement.( ) 1. __________ resulted mainly from the expansion of the study of linguistics, especially that of semantics.A. PragmaticsB. PragmatismC. PhonologyD. Practicalism( ) 2. Once the notion of __________ was taken into consideration, semantics spilled into pragmatics.A. meaningB. contextC. formD. content( ) 3. If a sentence is regarded as what people actually utter in the course of communication, it becomes __________.A. a sentenceB. an actC. a unitD. an utterance( ) 4. A __________ analysis of an utterance will reveal what the speaker intends to do with it.A. semanticB. syntacticC. pragmaticD. grammatical( ) 5. __________ act theory is an important theory in the pragmatic study of language.A. SpeakingB. SpeechC. SoundD. Spoken( ) 6. __________ act is the act performed by or resulting from saying something.A. A locutionaryB. An illocutionaryC. A perlocutionaryD. A speech( ) 7. One of the contributions Searle has made is his classification of __________ acts.A. IocutionaryB. illocutionaryC. perlocutionaryD. speech( ) 9. All the utterances that can be made to serve the same purpose may vary in their __________ form.A. syntacticB. semanticC. grammaticalD. pragmatic( ) 10. The Cooperative Principle is proposed by __________.A. John SearleB. John AustinC. Paul GriceD. John Lyons( ) 11. Linguists found that it would be impossible to give an adequate description of meaning if the __________ of language use was left unconsidered.A. brevityB. contextC. accuracyD. none of the above( ) 12. Of the three speech acts, linguists are most interested in the __________.A. locutionary actB. perlocutionary actC. illocutionary actD. none of the above( ) 13. The maxim of quantity requires: __________A. make your contribution as informative as required.B. do not make contribution more informative than is required.C. do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence.D. Both A and B.( ) 14. The maxim of quality requires: do not say what you believe to be __________.A. falseB. trueC. briefD. orderly( ) 15. Most of the violations of the maxims of the CP give rise to __________.A. utterance meaningB. speech act theoryC. conversational implicatureD. all of the above( ) 16. The significance of Grice's CP lies in that it explains how it is possible for the speaker to convey __________ is literally said.A. more thanB. less thanC. the same asD. none of the aboveD. Define the following terms, giving examples for illustration:1. context2. utterance meaning3. locutionary act4. illocutionary act5. perlocutionary art参考答案：A. 1-5 TTFFT 6-10 FTFTF 11-16 TTFTT 16-20 FTFTT 21-25 FTFTF 26-28 FTFB. 1. language, world 2. utterance 3. cooperate, Cooperative Principle4. quality, manner5. relevant6. pragmatics7. context8. utterance 9. illocutionary 10. speech 11. Commissives12. directive 13. conversation 14. conversational 15. CooperativeC. 1-5ABDCB 6-10 CBCAC 11-15 BCDAC 16 A。
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语法范畴：词形变化表现的语法意义的聚合叫做“语法范畴”。
语法范畴就是词形变化所表达的语法意义的类。
常见的语法范畴主要性、数、格、体、时、态、级等，俄语、德语、法语中的某些词有性的区分。
文字：是指语言的视觉符号性质，是为了记录语言而发明的一种书写符号系统，是在语言的基础上产生的。
文字有音，形，义三部分。
音位变体：处在互补关系中的相似的音素彼此不对立，即不起区别词的语音形式的作用，我们可以把它们归并为一个音位。
如果他们被归为一个音位，则处于互补关系中的各个音素就被看作同一个音位在不同的位置上的代表，是同一个音位的不同的变异形式，所以我么把它们叫做音位变体。
音位变体可以分为“自由变体”和“条件变体”组合关系：符号和符合组合起来，形成高一级的结构，处于高一级结构中的各个符号，称为结构的成份，结构中的各个成分的关系称为组合关系。
聚合关系：如果一些语言符号或更大的单位在结合的某一环节上能够互相替换并且替换后结构关系不会改变，那么这些符号在结构中就具有某种相同的作用，它们自然地聚集成群，它们彼此的关系叫做聚合关系。
直接组成成分：句子是按照一定的规则一层一层组合起来的。
每一层中直接组合起来构成一个更大的语法单位的两个组成成分叫做直接组成部分。
洋泾浜：是当地人在和外来的商人，水手，传教士等打交道的过程中学来的一种变了形的外语。
是当地人没有学好的外语，是外语在当地语言的影响下出现的变种。
“洋泾浜”的共同特点是：语音经过当地语言音系的适当改造，语法规则减少到最低限度，词汇的项目比较少，往往要借助于迂回曲折的总说法指称事物。
“洋泾浜”是一定社会条件下的产物，只有口头形式，用于和外国人交往的特殊场合，没有人把它看作母语作为第一语言。
语言和言语语言的交际功能就是通过言语形式来实现的。
语言学中把对语言的运用及其成果成为言语，通俗点讲言语就是说话（或写作）和所说（所写）的话语言是从言语中概括出来的的为社会所公认的词语和规则的总和。
每个人说出来的各式各样的句子中，都必须具备为全社会共同理解的一致遵守的东西，这就是语言的语音，词汇，语法。
社会中的人群由于性别，年龄，文化程度，经济状况和社会分工的不同而分化为不同的社团。
格局社会因素而区分的社团与语言特点相关，因此这些社会社团又被成为不同的“言语社团”。
各个言语社团语言是在全民族语言基础上产生的各有自己特点的语言分支或语言变体，这就是所谓社会方言。
基础方言一个民族或一个国家的共同语是在某一个方言的基础上形成的，这种方言叫做基础方言。
小学训诂学（字义），音韵学（字音），文字学（字形）句法同义：就是几种句子格式表示相同或相近的结构意义。
例如：（1）我打破了杯子。
（2）杯子被我打破了（3）杯子我打破了。
（4）我把杯子打破了。
这四个句子句法组合有别，但意义相近句法多义：是指同一个句法组合具有两种或两种以上的结构意义。
例如：通知的人还没有来简答题1、举例说明语言符号的任意性和线条性语言符号的任意性是指：作为符号系统的成员，单个语言符合的语音形式和意义之间没有自然属性上的必然联系，只有社会约定的关系，即约定俗成的。
相近的概念，在不同的语言中其语音形式差异很大，同样表达“书”的意义，汉语发音为“shu”，英语发音为“book”。
相反，相近的发音，在不同的语言中，可能意义完全不同。
语言符号的线条性：语言符号在试用中是以符号序列的形式出现的，符号只能一个跟着一个依次出现，在时间的线条上绵延，不能在空间的面上铺开。
如：“香”，“菜”，“肠”，“瓜”，“油”这些都是单个的符号，“香菜”，“香肠”，“香瓜”，“香油”，“菜香”等，则分别是由这些最小的符号组合而成的不同的符号序列，表达了不同于单个符号的新的意义。
例如“香菜”与“瓜香”意义不同是由于符号的结构关系不同，而结构关系的不同是由于符号的线性排序不同来表达的。
语法结构规则就隐含在这些线性序列中。
2、举例说明三种语法范畴词形变化表现的语法意义的聚合叫做“语法范畴”。
语法范畴就是词形变化所表达的语法意义的类。
常见的语法范畴主要性、数、格、体、时、态、级等，俄语、德语、法语中的某些词有性的区分。
（1）体，表示动作行为而进行的各种阶段和状态，是动词特有的语法范畴动词的简单形式表示普通体（eg.“I write”），“be+动词的现在分词”表示进行体（eg.“I am writing”），“have+动词的过去词”表示完成体（eg.“I have written”）。
（2）态，也称语态，表示动作和主体的关系。
它是动词所具有的语法范畴，一般分为主动态和被动态，主动态表示主体是动作的发出者，被动态表示主体是动作的承受者，谓语会有eg. John is writing by JohnA letter is being written by John（3）人称，不少语言的动词随着主语的人称不同而有不用的形式，英语动词只在现在时单数的时候有第三人称和其他人称的对立。
eg. He（she）writes I write You write They Write3、语言发展的特点渐变性和不平衡性是语言发展的两个最重要的特点。
（一）语言发展的渐变性渐变性是语言发展的一个重要特点，指语言随着社会的发展变化而变化，但语言不像社会变革那样产生突变，而是逐渐发展变化的，具有相对稳定性。
为什么语言发展变化会有渐变性特点呢？这是由语言的社会功能所决定的，语言作为人类最重要的交际工具，社会成员相互联系的纽带和桥梁，是人们日常生活根本离不开的，人们无时无刻不使用语言，语言同社会的关系是如此密切，因此不可能发生巨变、突变，只能逐渐变化，即使社会发生了剧烈变化，语言也不马上巨变，大有我自岿然不动之势。
这样才能有人们的需要相适应，不至于影响人们的使用。
我们前面说到，有些国家分裂了，一种语言也随着分裂为不同的语言，这里好象发生了巨变，其实这只是名分上的变化，没有影响到语言的实质，真正的变化还是在以后逐渐发生的。
（二）语言发展的不平衡性第一，语言系统的各个组成部分的发展不平衡，发展速度不一样，有的快，有的慢，其中词汇变化最快，语音和语法发展比较慢。
第二，语言在不同的地域的发展速度和发展方向也不一样，同一种语言现象，在有的地区变化，在有的地区不发生变化，有的地区是另一种变化，其结果是形成地域方言和社会方言。
为什么语言发展变化会有不平衡性特点呢？这可以从以下几个方面来认识：第一，语言系统中，词汇变化最快，因为词汇与社会的联系最为紧密，最直接，对社会的发展变化反应也最灵敏，社会的变化，现实现象的产生与消失，随时都能在词汇中反应出来，比如一个新事物新观念产生了，要进入交际领域，首先就要有个名称，就必然要在词汇系统中反映出来，而社会现象、事物、观念的产生与消失，是经常发生的，在词汇中以新词的产生、旧词的消亡、词义的发展变化等种种形式。
第二，由于各地的社会政治、经济文化等方面的发展水平不一致，往往就导致语言在不同地域的发展变化具有不同的特点，因而具有不平衡性的特点。
比如我们今天常用的“楼盘、楼花、按揭、写字楼”就是从“台港－广东－内地”这样传开的。
4、什么是分布？区分词类的标准是什么？词出现的语言环境的总和叫分布词类按照词在结构中所能起的作用，即词的句法功能分出类词法功能：1、充当句法成分（实）主语n. 谓语v. 宾语n 补语adj adv2、能与哪些词语组合（实）不能加“很、不”，后不能加“了”，不做谓语的叫名词前加“很”，后面加“了、的”，在偏正结构中修饰名词的叫形容词后加“的，了”，前不加“不”，但能加“很”，叫动词3、表达的语法意义（虚）专门起语法作用，是体现结构关联的重要语法手段，语法特征比较明显。
eg. 汉语中起连接作用的连词（和，或者，虽然），表示语气的语气词（吗，呢，吧）5、语言符号的层级体系（P28）语言符号看起来零零散散，好像是一堆乱糟糟的材料，但实际上它们相互间存在着规律性的联系，组成一个严密的系统。
可以从两方面来认识这种系统：一是组成规则，二是运转规则。
语言系统的组成规则主要表现为结构的层次性，就是说，语言是一种分层的装置，可以从低到高、或者从下到上分出若干个层次，使音、义以及由音义相结合而组成的符号“各就各位”，各得其所，但每一种现象又不是孤立的，相互之间处于一种互相依存、彼此制约的关系之中，形成一个严密的系统。
我们可以从下到上去观察语言系统的结构层次。
语言符号是音与义的结合体，因而音与义自然处于最下层。
“音”本来是一条混沌、模糊的线性音流，犹如笑声哭声、虎啸狼毫，分不出音的结构成分来；“义”的情况也是如此，混沌、模糊，分不出意义的界限。
一种语言的音位是有限的，一般只有三、四十个，但这些有限的音位按照一定的规则进行组合而构成语音，基本上就能满足意义表达的需要，构成语言符号。
音位本身没有意义，但具有区别意义的作用；意义如果不经语音的包装，也是无法显示和表达的。
音位处于语言系统的下层，其特点就是单面性，因为它本身没有意义。
音位经组合而与某种意义相结合就能构成语言的符号和符号的序列，这是语言的上层。
这一层又可以分若干个级：第一级是语素，这是语言中音义结合的最小结构单位，第二级是由语素的组合构成的词，第三级是由词的组合构成的句子；词和句子都是符号的序列。
6、举例说明常见的语言手段1、历史比较语言学——标志语言科学诞生（1）19世纪历史比较语言学在理论和方法上大致可以分为三个阶段：在初始阶段，丹麦的拉斯克、德国的格里姆和葆扑被成为历史比较语言学的奠基者。
19世纪中期，历史比较语言学发展到第二阶段，最有代表性的人物是德国的施莱歇尔。
19世纪的最后25年是历史比较语言学的“新语法学派”时期。
这个学派的代表人物是德国的奥斯特霍夫和布鲁克曼，他们在自己创办的刊物《形态学研究》上正式宣布：语音的演变规律不允许任何例外。
（2）地位：历史比较语言学从前又称比较语法，通过语言亲属关系的比较研究语言的发展规律，拟测它们的共同母语。
历史比较语言学主要是印欧语系的历史比较。
1 9世纪历史比较语言学家为语言学的发展做出了重要贡献。
他们不仅提出了人类语言演变过程的假设，画出了世界语言的譜系，而且还创造出比较科学的研究方法，提出了有关语言起源、语言本质的新理论，为后来结构主义和描写语言学的产生和发展创造了有利条件。