英语专业语言学期末复习资料.doc

Phonetics (sound)语音学；phonology(sounds) 音系学；morphology(word) 形态学；syntax(words, sentence)句法学； semantics(meaning)语义学；pragmatics(meaning in a context)语用学
1. If a linguistic study aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, it is said to be descriptive (modern). If the linguistic study aims to lay down rules for correct and standard behavior in using language, i.e. to tell people what they should say and what they should not say, it is said to be prescriptive.
2. Synchronic static state grammer; diachronic dynamic historical development
3.Langue (language): the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community, stable.; Parole (speaking): the realization of langue in actual use, concrete, specific, changeable. What a linguist ought to do, according to Saussure, is to abstract langue from instances of parole.sociological or sociolinguistic point of view
4. American linguist N. Chomsky Competence: the ideal user’s knowledge of the rules of his language,stable,prerequisite; Performance: the actual use of language in concrete situations,changeable.psychologically or psycholinguistically.
5.Traditional grammar ---- prescriptive, written, Latin-based framework
Modern linguistics ----- descriptive, spoken, not necessarily Latin-based framework
6. Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication. Design Features of Language.1:Arbitrariness2:duality:The structural organization of language into two abstract levels: meaningful units (e. g. words in written language)
and meaningless segments (e. g. sounds, letters in spoken language).1. Combine meaningless sounds into meaningful linguistic units
2. Combine small units into big units 3.productivity/creativity:Language is resourceful because of its duality and its recursiveness. We can use it to create new meanings. 4.Displacement: which are not present (in time and space) at the moment of communication.5.cultural transmission
7. Six Functions of language:Addresser---Emotive the addresser expressed his attitude to the topic or situation of communication; Addressee---Conative使动 xx aims to influence the addressee’s course of action or ways of thinking；Context---referentia所指, xx conveys a message or informationl;Message---Poetic xx uses language for the sole purpose of displaying the beauty of language itself;Contact--Phatic communication寒暄, xx tries to establish or maintain good interpersonalrelationships with the addressee；Code--Metalingual xx uses language to make clear the meaning of language itself.
8. M. A. K. Halliday.Metafunctions of Language:Ideational function:About the natural world in the broadest sense, including our own consciousness; Relates to the context of culture. Interpersonal function:About the social world, especially the relationship between speaker and hearer ; Relates to the context of situation. Contextual function:About the verbal world, especially the flow of information in a text; Relates to the verbal context.
9. A phone is a phonetic unit or segment. The speech sounds we hear and produce during linguistic communication are all phones. But a phone doesn’t necessarily distinguish meaning; some do, some don’t. 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 or realized by a certain phone in a certain phonetic context.
10. phones are placed within square brackets: [ ], and phonemes in slashes: / /.
11. /p/ in [pi:k] (peak) : an aspirated [ph]
12. /p/ in [spi:k] (speak): an unaspirated [p]
13. Both [ph] and [p] are called as allophones of /p/
14. The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environments are called allophones. [p, ph] are two different phones and are variants of the phoneme /p/. Such variants of a phoneme are called allophones of the same phoneme.
15. Minimal pairs: Pairs of words which differ from each other only by one sound;
More precisely: two words which are identical in every way except for one sound segment that occurs in the same place in the string.
16.Sequential rules The patterning of sounds in a particular language is governed by rules;The phonological system determines which phonemes can begin a word, end a word, and follow each other.Refer to the rules that govern the combination of sounds in a particular language.
17.Assimilation rule—assimilates one sound to another by “copying” a feature of a sequential phoneme, thus making the two phones similar, e.g. the prefix in-
18. When pitch, stress, and sound length are tried to the sentence rather than the word in isolation, they are collectively known as intonation: the falling tone, the rising tone, the fall-rise tone, the rise-fall tone.
19.单元音monophthongs 双元音 diphthongs
20.Morpheme: the minimal unit of meaning. It is the smallest unit that carries grammatical and /or semantic meaning.
Morphs:The smallest meaningful phonetic segments of an utterance on the level of parole.The phonological or orthographic forms which realize morphemes.
Allomorphs:A member of a set of morphs which represent the same morpheme. Allomorphs are phonological or orthographic variants of the same morpheme.
21.Free morpheme is one that may constitute a word (free form) by itself, such as
bed, tree, sing, dance, etc.Bound morpheme is one that may appear with at least one other morpheme, such as “-s” in “dogs”, “-al” in “national”, “dis-” in “disclose”, “-ed” in “recorded”, etc.
22. Derivational morphemes—the morphemes which change the category, or grammatical class,or meaning of words. e.g. modern — modernize
Inflectional morphemes:purely grammatical markers;signifying tense, number, and case;not changing the syntactic category; never adding any lexical meaning
23. Compounding (合成词) blackboard; Derivation(派生词) --ful ---able; Back-formation逆构词法 television televise; Borrowing—loan words (外来词); Clipping（缩略词）labtory lab; Blending（混成法）motel; Acronym（词首字母）APEC；Coinage/Invention (Neologism) 创新词 nylon
24. Open: n. V. Adj. Adv. Bound morphemes :roots and affixes
25. ① traditional categories: n., v., adj., adv., prep., conj., aux., pronoun….
② non-traditional categories: determiner (Det限定词), degree words (Deg程度词), qualifier (Qual修饰语).
26. Three criteria are used to determine a word’s category: meaning, inflection, distribution.
27. the structure or elements of phrases:XP rule specifier+head+complement
28. NP à (Det) + N + (PP)…
29. VP à (Qual) + V + (NP)…
30. AP à (Deg) + A + (PP)…
31. PP à (Deg) + P + (NP)…
32. S → NP VP
33. Deep structure: formed by the XP rule in accordance with the head’s subcategorization properties, is called ds. Surface structure: corresponding to the final syntactic form of the sentence which results from appropriate transformations, is called ss. Do insertion, WH movement.
34. Syntactic movement is dictated by rules traditionally called transformation. A special type of rule that can move an element from one position to another.
35. Head: A V N P
36. Semantics is generally considered to be the study of meaning in language.
37. The conceptualist view holds that there is no direct link between a linguistic form
And what it refers to (i.e.between language and real world ); rather, in the interpretation of meaning, they are linked through the mediation of concepts in the mind. Semantic triangle by ogden and richards: symblo/form, thought/ reference/, refrent.
38. Contextualism: Meaning should be studied in terms of situation, use, context ---- elements closely linked with language behavior. JR forth
39. 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----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. The relationship between sense and reference:And, if等只有sense, 而无reference.一个sense可以有许多reference同一referenece可有不同的sense，Mrs Thatcher, & the Iron Lady. Morning Star & Evening Star.
40. Major sense relations: Synonymy (同义关系)Antonymy (反义关系)Polysemy (多义关系)Homonymy (同音/形异义) Hyponymy (上下义关系)
41. Antonymy: Complementary antonyms (互补反义词)非A即B; Gradable antonyms (程度反义词) :AB有中间, very .. How..; Relational opposites （关系对立词）丈夫妻子
42. Sense relations between sentences: Synonymy (同义关系) inconsistency (自相矛盾)Entailment (蕴涵)Presupposition (预设)X is a contradiction (自相矛盾)X is semantically anomalous (反常的
43. man [+HUMAN +ADULT +MALE] women [+HUMAN ADULT －MALE]
girl [+HUMAN －ADULT －MALE] child [+HUMAN －ADULT OMALE]

father: PARENT (x, y) & MALE (x)
x is a parent of y, and x is male.
take: CAUSE (x, (HAVE (x, y)))
x causes x to have y.
give: CAUSE (x, (~HAVE (x, y)))
x causes x not to have y.
44. predication analysis: G.leech: argument 名词 predicate 动词
45. Pragmatics --- the study of the intended meaning of a speaker (taking context into consideration). Pragmaticists regard meaning as something that is realized in the course of communication.
Semantics --- the study of the literal meaning of a sentence (without taking context into consideration).Semanticists take meaning to be an inherent property of language.
Essential difference is that whether in the study of meaning the context of use is considered. 不 senmantics.
46. Sentence meaning: It is abstract and context-independent; it’s the literal meaning of a sentence. Utterance meaning: It is concrete and context-dependent; It’s the intended meaning of a speaker.It is the product of sentence meaning and context. Therefore, it is richer than the meaning of the sentence.
47. John Austin’s speech act theory.Performatives (行事话语): I promise Constatives (述事话语)
48. A locutionary act (言内行为) is the act of saying words, phrases, clause; it is an act of conveying literal meaning by means of syntax, lexicon and phonology.
An illocutionary act (言外行为) is the act of expressing the speaker’s intention; it is the act performed in saying something. 关注
A perlocutionary act (言后行为) is the act performed by or resulting from saying something; it is the consequence of, or the change brought about by the utterance.act performed by saying sth.
49. Searle’s classification of speech acts:Representatives (陈述) Directives (指令)Commissives (承诺) Expressives (表达) Declarations (宣布)
50. CP Grice:The maxim of quality: false.lack adequate evidence.The maxim of quantity信息充足; The maxim of relation继续下去; The maxim of manner方式表达清楚模糊词绕口
1. P_________ is the study of how speakers of a language use sentences to effect successful communication.
Pragmatics
2. The notion of c_________ is essential to the pragmatic study of language.
context
3. The meaning of a sentence is a_______, and decontexualized.
abstract
4. P________ were sentences that did not state a fact or describe a state, and were not verifiable.
Performatives
1. An i__________ act is the act of expressing the speaker’s intention; it is the act performed in saying something.
illocutionary
2. A c_________ is commit the speaker himself to some future course of action.
commissive
3. An e________ is to express feelings or attitude towards an existing state.
expressive
4. There are four maxims under the cooperative principle: the maxim of q_______, the maxim of quality, the maxim of relation and the maxim of manner.
quantity
4. ____C______ 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 act
B. An illocutionary act
C. A perlocutionary act
D. A performative act
5. According to Searle, the illocutionary point of the representative is _B_____.
A. to get the hearer to do something
B. to commit the speaker to something’s being the case
C. to commit the speaker to some future course of action
D. to express the feelings or attitude towards an existing state of affairs

1. Pragmatics treats the meaning of language as something intrinsic and inherent. F
2. What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is whether in the study of meaning the context of use is considered. T
3. The major difference between a sentence and an utterance is that a sentence is not uttered while an utterance is. F
4. Speech act theory was originated with the British philosopher John Searle. F
5. Speech act theory started in the late 50’s of the 20th century. T
6. Austin made the distinction between a constative and a performative. T
7. Perlocutionary act is the act of expressing the speaker’s intention. F
1. A __bound_____ morpheme is one that cannot constitute a word by itself.
2. On, before and together are__close_____words—they are words which do not take inflectional endings.
3. Bound morphemes are classified into two types: __affix__ and __root__ root.
4. Pronouns, prepositions,conjunctions and articles are all_close__class items.
5. handsome consists of 2 morphemes, one is the _free___ morpheme hand, the other is the __bound__ morpheme some.
1.There are _C__ morphemes in the word denationalization?
A. 3 B. 4. C. 5. D. 6
2. Morphemes that represent tense, number, gender and case are called___A_ morphemes.
A. inflectional B.free C. bound D. Derivational
1. Major lexical categories are___N__, __V__, __adj__and____prep_.
2. The deep structure refers to ____.
3. when the affirmative sentence "Jack sold his textbooks to jill after the final examination' is transformed into "When did jack sell his textbooks to Jill?", three transformational rules are applied. they are__Do insertion__, subject-aux inversion and __Wh movement__.
4. Syntactic movement is dictated by rules traditionally called __transformation______.
5. The head is the word __n v a p___.
1. Syntax is a subfield of linguistics that studies the sentence structure of language, including the combination of morphemes into words.F
2. In English syntactic analysis, four phrasal categories are commonly recognized and discussed, namely, noun phrase, verb phrase, infinitive phrase, and auxiliary phrase. F
3. A noun phrase must contain a noun, but other elements are optional.T
1. Phonetics studies the phonic medium of a certain language. ( F )
2. The long vowels are all tense vowels and the short vowels are all lax vowels. ( T )
3. In English, pill and bill are a minimal pair, and so are pill and till, pin and ping. ( T