sign is the union of a form and an idea, which Saussure called _______.
A. langue and parole B. signifier and signified C. speech and writing D. system and function 3. Many modern linguists have criticized traditional grammarians for adopting a _____ approach to language study.
A. synchronic B. diachronic C. prescriptive D. descriptive
4. The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is good proof that human language is . A. arbitrary B. rational C. logical D. cultural 5. Palatal semi-vowel refers to the sound . A. [n] B. [h] C. [w] D. [j] 6. A phoneme is a group of phonetically similar sounds called . A. minimal pairs B. allomorphs C. phones D. allophones 7. Morphemes that represent “tense”, “number”, “gender”, “case” and so forth are called morphemes. A. inflectional B. bound
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C. free D. derivational
8. The English word “modernizers” is composed of morphemes.
A. four B. three C. two D. five 9. “Unless I hear from her, I won?t leave this town” is a sentence.
A. simple B. coordinate C. complex D. compound
10. In the phrase structure rule “S NP VP”, the arrow can
be read as . A. is equal to B. consists of C. has D. generates 11. In the following pairs of words, are a pair of complementary antonyms.
A. old and young B. male and female C. hot and cold D. buy and sell
12. The stimulus-response theory was proposed by . A. Firth B. Halliday C. Bloomfield D. Chomsky
13. ____________ found that natural language had its own logic and thus concluded the famous Cooperative Principle. A. John Austin B. John Firth
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C. Paul Grice D. William Jones 14. As far as the sentence “My bag is heavy” is concerned, linguists of pragmatics are more interested in its ______ meaning.
A. literal B. logical C. contextual D. grammatical 15. is defined as any regionally or socially definable human group identified by shared linguistic system. A. A speech community B. A race C. A society D. A nation 16. A speaker?s knowledge of the total set of rules,
conventions, etc., governing the skilled use of language in a society is termed ______.
A. competence B. performance C. communicative competence D. communicative strategy
17. The phonemes /k/, /a:/ and /p/ are in ______ relations in the words /ka:p/ (carp) and /pa:k/ (park).
A. synchronic B. syntagmatic C. diachronic D. paradigmatic
18. The Prague School claims that a sentence may be analyzed from the functional side in terms of ______as well as from the grammatical side.
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A. theme and rheme B. argument and predicate C. subject and predicate D. performative and constative 19. In the proposition “Professor Green is a linguist”, the predicate linguist is a ______.
A. no-place predicate B. one-place predicate C. two-place predicate D. three-place predicate 20. The following conversation exchange clearly violates ______.
A: Let?s get the kids something. B: Okey, but I veto I-C-E-C-R-E-A-M-S.
A. maxim of Quantity B. maxim of Quality C. maxim of Relation D. maxim of Manner
21. The morpheme “vision” in the common word “television” is a(n) ______.
A. bound morpheme B. bound form C. inflectional morpheme D. free morpheme
22. The compound word “bookstore” is the place where books are sold. This indicates that the meaning of a compound ______.
A. is the sum total of the meaning of its components B. can always be worked out by looking at the meanings of morphemes
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C. is the same as the meaning of a free phrase. D. None of the above.
23. The part of speech of the compounds is generally determined by the part of speech of _______. A. the first element B. the second element C. either the first or the second element D. both the first and the second elements.
24. _______ are those that cannot be used independently but have to be combined with other morphemes, either free or bound, to form a word.
A. Free morphemes B. Bound morphemes C. Bound words D. Words
25. _____ is a branch of grammar which studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed. A. Syntax B.Grammar C. Morphology D. Morpheme
26. The meaning carried by the inflectional morpheme is _______.
A. lexical B. morphemic C. grammatical D. semantic
27. Bound morphemes are those that ___________. A. have to be used independently
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