|
25. Componential analysis is a way proposed by the generative semanticists to analyze meaning. (
)
26. Linguists found that it would be possible to give an adequate description of meaning even if the context of language use was left unconsidered. (
)
27. It is generally accepted that the history of the English language is divided into the periods of Old English,
Middle English and Modern English. (
)
28. When people of a community speak the same language for different purposes, sociolinguistic situations known as diglossia and bilingualism emerge. (
)
29. Linguistic lateralization in terms of right hemispheric dominance for language is found to exist in an overwhelming majority of human beings. (
)
30. In order to identify the areas of learning difficulty,
an interlingual contrastive procedure Contrastive Analysis was developed. (
)
四、名词解释
(
每小题
3
分，共
30
分
)
31. competence and performance
32. minimal pair
33. morphology
34. finite clause
35. sense and reference
36. Cooperative Principle
37. semantic broadening
38. language planning
39. the critical period hypothesis
40. instrumental motivation vs.
integrative motivation
五、论述题
(
第
41
、
42
小题各
7
分，第
43
小题
6
分，共
20
分
)
41. Under what conditions will two sounds be assigned to the same phoneme?
42. For the following sentence,
draw a tree diagram to reveal its underlying structure.
The girl ate the orange.
43. Study the passage taken from Shakespeare
’
s HAMLET below carefully and identify every difference in expression between Elizabethan and Modern English that is evident.
King: Where is Polonius?
Hamlet: In heaven,
Send thither to see.
If your messenger find him not there,
seek him i
’
the other place yourself.
But indeed, if you find him not within
this month, you shall nose him as you
go up the stairs into the lobby.
Act IV,
Scene iii | 
