语言学例题
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1. Syntax mainly deals with _______ A. how a language changes through time
B. how words are combined to form sentences and the rules that govern the formation of sentences C. how the human work when they use language
D. how a language varied through geographical space
2. Syntactic categories contain the type of _____ A. meaning that words express B. affixes that the words take
C. structures in which the words can occur D. All of the above
3. Which of the following is NOT the concern of a word category?
A. A word category can be determined by meaning inflection and distribution B. To determine a word?s category by its meaning only is often not reliable C. A word?s category can be embodied directly from its meaning
D. Distribution is more reliable than the meaning to determine a word?s category
4. What clements does a phrase contain? A. Head, determiner and complement B. Head, specifier and complement C. Head, specifier and complementizer D. Head, determiner and complementizer 4.B
5.Transformational rules do not change the basis of ______sentence A. meaning B. form C. position D. structure
6. The criteria to determine a word?s category include all the following EXCEPT ______ A. meaning B. inflection C. distribution D. parts of speech
7. The syntax component provides the ____ for a sentence A. lexicon B. structure C. meaning D. sound
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8. Application of the transformational rules yields _____ structure. A. phrase B. deep
C. prelexical D. surface
9. The same word has the same ___ meaning to all the speakers of same language A. conceptual B. associative D. affective
10. ____ is a branch of linguistic that studies how words are embodied to form sentences and the rules that govern the formation of sentences A. Semantics B. Pragmatics C. Syntax
D. Morphology
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1. ______ is the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship between expression and
content. A. Word
B. Morpheme C. Allophone D. Root
2. ______ studies the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed A. Morphology B. Syntax C. Phonology D. Semantics
3. Lexeme is _______
A. a physically definable unit
B. the common factor underlying a set of forms C. a grammatical unit D. an indefinable unit
4. An ____ language is a language in which concepts that we express using prepositions, possessive adjectives, and so on are expressed as morphs concatenated in the same words as the relevant base. {粘着语} A. Inflecting B. Agglutinating C. Isolating D. Analytical
5. In the word conceive, the morpheme –ceive is a ______ A. free root B. bound root C. suffix D. prefix
6. The plural affix in the word tables is a(n) _______ A. inflectional suffix B. derivational suffix C. free morpheme D. root
7. Which of the following sounds does not belong to the allomorph of the English plural morpheme?
A. [s] B. [iz] C. [ai] D. [is]
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8. Which of the following process of lexical change does the Chinese word “人大” expressed? A. Blending B. Abbreviation C. Borrowing
D. Back-formation
9. Which of the following words is created through the process of acronym? A. ad B. edit C. AIDS D. Bobo
10. All words contain a ______ A. root morpheme B. bound morpheme C. prefix D. suffix
11. Which of the following words is a derivational one? A. blackboard B. teaches
C. consideration D. books
12. ______ Belongs to a closed word class A. In
B. Beautiful C. Noun D. Create
13. The relationship between “fruit” and “apple” is ____ A. homonymy B. hyponymy C. polysemy D. synonymy
14. The word “lab” is formed through _____ A. back formation B. blending C. clipping D. derivation
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