语言学复习资料

下定义

1. (P3)Sociolinguistics(社会语言学): The studies of all the social aspects of

language and its relation with society is called sociolinguistics.

2. (P7)Language（语言）: Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used

for human communication.

3. (P8)Arbitrariness（任意性）: This means that there is no logical connection

between meanings and sounds.

4. (P2)Phonetics（语音学）：Phonetic refers to the study of sounds used in

linguistic communication.

5. (P16)Voicing（浊音化）: Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of

speech sounds.

6. (P26)Assimilation rule（同化规则）: The assimilation rule assimilates one

sound to another by “copying” a feature of a sequential phoneme, thus making

the two phones similar.

7. (P29)Intonation（语调）: When pitch, stress and sound length are tied to the

sentence rather than the word in isolation, they are collectively known as

intonation.

8. (P42)Syntax（句法）: Syntax is a branch of linguistics that studies the rules

that govern the formation of sentences.

9. (P42)Category（范畴）: Category refers to a group of linguistic items which

fulfill the same or similar functions in a particular language such as a sentence, a

noun phrase or a verb.

10. (P48)Complementizers（补语化成分）: Words which introduce the sentence

complement are termed complementizers.

11. (P53)Head movement（中心语移动）: The movement of a word from the

head position in one phrase into the head position in another is known as head

movement.

12. (P64-65)Linguistic context（语言语境）: The linguistic context is concerned

with the probability of a word’s co-occurrence or collocation with another word.

13. (P66)Reference（所指）: Reference means what a linguistic form refers to in

the real, physical world.

14. (P70)Relational opposites（关系反义词）: Pairs of words that exhibit the

reversal of a relationship between the two items are called relational opposites.

15. (P74)Argument（论元）: An argument is a logical participant in a predication,

largely identical with a nominal element in a sentence.

16. (P77)Pragmatics（语用学）: Pragmatics is the study of how speakers of a

language use sentences to effect successful communication.

17. (P81)Constatives（表述句）: Constatives are statements that either state or

describe, and are thus verifiable.

填空题

第一章

1. (P3) If a linguistic aims to describe and analyze the language people actually

use, it is said to be descriptive（描写性的）. If the linguistic study aims to lay down

rules for “correct and standard” behavior in using language, it is said to be

prescriptive（规定性的）.

2.(P4) The description of a language at some point of time in history is a

synchronic(共时的）study; the description of a language as it changes through time

is a diachronic（历时的）study.

3.(P4) Langue(语言）refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the

members of a speech community, and parole(言语) refers to the realization of

language in actual use

4. (P5) Chomsky defines competence(语言能力）as the ideal user’s

knowledge of the rules of his language, and performance（语言表现）the actual

realization of his knowledge in linguistic communication.

第二章

5.（P17)As some speech sounds produced differ only in some detailed aspects,

the IPA provides its users with another set of symbols called diacritics(发音符号/辨

音符）

6. (P23) A phoneme(音素）is a phonological unit, it is a unit that is of distinctive

value, it is an abstract value.

7. (P24) It can be easily observed that phonetically similar sounds might be

related in two ways. If they are two distinctive phonemes,they are said to form a

phonemic contrast(音素对照), e.g. /p/ and /b/ in [pit] and [bit].

8. (P24)When two different forms are identical in every way except for one

sound segment which occur the same position in the strings, the two sound

combinations are said to from a minimal pair(最小配对).e.g pill and bill, pill and till

are a minimal pair.

9.(P25) Rules that govern the combination of sounds in a particular language,

the rules are called sequential rules(序列规则).

10.(P27) The phonemic features that occur above the level of the segments are

called suprasegmental feature(超音段特征).

第三章

11.(P33) Morpheme(词素): the smallest unit of language that carries

information about meaning or function.

A morpheme which can be a word by itself is called a free morpheme(自由词

素). Whereas a morpheme that must be attached to another one is called bound

morpheme(粘着词素).

12.(P33) The variant forms of a morpheme are called its allomorphs(词素变体).

第四章

13. (P44) Syntactic units that are built around a certain word category are

called phrases(短语), the category of which is determined by the word category

around which the phrase is built.

14. (P45)Phrases that are formed of more than one word usually contain the

following elements: head(中心语), specifier(标志语）and complement(补语).

15. (P48)The information about a word’s complement is included in the head

and termed subcategorization（次范畴化）.

16. (P52) Transformation(转换）is a special type of rule that can move an

element from one position to another.

第五章

17. (P67-68)Synonymy:近义关系的分类:

1) Dialectal synonyms(方言同义词) -- synonyms used in different regional

dialects.(来自不同地域的人使用同一种语言产生的不同）

2) Stylistic synonyms(文体同义词) -- synonyms differing in style

3) Synonyms that differ in their emotive or evaluative(评价) meaning

4) Collocational synonyms(搭配同义)

5) Semantically different synonyms（不考）

18.(P69) When two words are identical in sound, they are homophones(同音不

同形不同义). When two words are identical in spelling, they are homographs(同形

不同音不同义). When two words are identical in both sound and spelling, they are

complete homonyms(同形同音不同义).

19. (P70) Antonymy:反义关系的分类

1) Gradable antonyms(可分等级的反义词)

2) Complementary antonyms(互补反义词)

3) Relational opposites(关系反义词)

20. (P72) Componential analysis(成分分析) is a way proposed by the

structural semanticists to analyze word meaning. The approach is based upon the

belief that the meaning of a word can be dissected into meaning components,

called semantic features.

第六章

21. (P81)Three Speech Acts:三种言语行为

According to Austin new model, a speaker might be performing three acts

simultaneously when speaking: locutionary act(言内行为), illocutionary act(言外

行为), and perlocutionary act(言后行为).

22. (P90)Pragmatic failure(语用失误) occurs when the speaker fails to use

language effectively to achieve a specific communicative purpose, or when the

hearer fails to recognize the intention or the illocutionary(言外之意) force of the

speaker’s utterance in the context of communication.

第八章

23.(P111) Speech variety(言语变体), or language variety, refers to any

distinguishable form of speech used by a speaker or a group of speakers.

24. (P117) Halliday further distinguishes three social variables(语域三变量)

that determine the register: field of discourse(语场), tenor of discourse(语旨),

and mode of discourse(语式).

25. (P122) The term diglossia(双言制度) refers to a sociolinguistic situation

similar to bilingualism where two varieties of a language exist side by side

throughout the community, with each having a definite role to play.