楊忠--语言学概论课后综合测试题及中文版答案.doc

综合测试题（一） I. Indicate the following statements true or false. Put T for true and F for false in the brackets：(10 points) ( ) 1. General linguistics is based on the view that language as a system, which is composed of three aspects: sound, structure and meaning. ( ) 2. The total number of words stored in the brain is called morphology. ( ) 3. The sentence “The woman can’t bear children” is structurally ambiguous. ( ) 4. Categorization refers to the process by which people use language to classify the world around and inside them. ( ) 5. Metaphors can create similarities between the target domain and the source domain. ( ) 6. According to referential content, deixis can be put into person deixis, place deixis, time deixis and discourse deixis. ( ) 7. Phrase structure rules are rules that specify the constituents of syntactic categories. ( ) 8. Modality can be categorized into probability and Usuality. ( ) 9. Age is not the learner factor that has been an issue in second language acquisition research. ( )10. Register, as a variety of language in use, is analyzed on three dimensions: field, mode and tenor. II. Multiple choice: (10 points) 1. ____________ is the first and foremost striking feature of human language. A. creativity B. arbitrariness C. displacement D. interchangeability 2. Syntactically, Japanese is ____________ language. A. analytic B. isolating C. synthetic D. agglutinating 3. The general roles language plays are termed . A. metalanguages B. metafunctions C. metadiscourses D. metagrammar 4. ____________ is a process that creates a new word by dropping a real or supposed suffix. A. Blending B. Eponyms C. Backformation D. Clipping 5. The smallest meaningful unit of language is called a ___________. A. suffix B. prefix C. morpheme D. morph 6. __________ theories are those that attempt to expl