2007年四川大学英语专业(语言学)真题试卷及答案

2007年四川大学英语专业（语言学）真题试卷及答案

一、名词解释

1 productivity(design feature of language)

2 phatic function of language

3 descriptive study of linguistics

4 bilabial consonant

5 minimal pairs

6 morpheme

7 inflection

8 compound

9 stem

10 back-formation

二、词汇题

11 rational

12 moral

13 regular

14 political

15 effective

16 human

17 relevant

18 legal

19 proportionate

20 resistible

三、简答题

21 How is the relation between sound and meaning classified?

22 What is the distinction between inflectional affixes and derivational affixes?

四、分析题

23 They are moving sidewalks.

24 Tom said Marl would go yesterday.

25 the synthetic buffalo hides

26 the fat mayor's wife

27 old man and women

一、名词解释

1 【正确答案】 By productivity,language is designed to make its users form and understand infinitesentences，most of which are never before produced or heard．

【试题解析】本题考查语言的定义特点之一——多产性，答案从《语言学教程(第三版)》(胡壮麟主编)(以下简称《教程》)第7页可以找到，同时，考生也应掌握语言的任意性、二层性和移位性。

2 【正确答案】 Phatic function of language refers to the use of such small，seemingly meaninglessexpressions that help establish some atmosphere and maintain interpersonal relations withoutinvolving any factual content．

【试题解析】本题考查语言的寒暄功能，答案可以从《教程》第12-13页总结。同时，考生也应掌握语言其他功能的定义。

3 【正确答案】 Descriptive study of linguistics is a kind of linguistic study in which linguists just tryto describe and record the language rules to which the members of a language community actuallyconform and do not seek to impose upon them other rules．

【试题解析】本题考查描写式语言学研究的定义，答案参照《教程》第20页。同时，考生也应了解语言学研究的其他方法，如规定式，共时和历时等概念。

4 【正确答案】 Bilabial consonant refers to the consonant articulated with the two lips．

【试题解析】本题考查双唇辅音的定义，答案参照《教程》第31页。考生也应知道其他辅音与元音，以及发音器官和发音方法等概念。

5 【正确答案】 Minimal pairs are pairs of words or phrases in a particular language，which differ inonly one phonological element and have a distinct meaning such as”bit”and“bet”．

【试题解析】本题考查进行音位研究中的重要概念最小对比对，参照《教程》第39页。

6 【正确答案】 Morpheme is the smallest unit of language in terms of the relationship betweenexpression and content，a unit that cannot be divided into further smaller units without destroying ordrastically altering the meaning，whether it is lexical o grammatical，e．g．good, in一，一ed,etc．

【试题解析】本题考查形态学研究中的重要概念——语素，答案参照《教程》第61页。

7 【正确答案】 Inflection indicates grammatical relations by adding inflectional affixes，such asnumber,person，finiteness，aspect and case；and when inflectional affixes are added，the grammaticalclass of the stems(to which they are

attached)will not change．For instance，car／cars，open／opened，boy／boy’s．

【试题解析】本题考查形态学领域涉及的重要概念——曲折变化，答案参照《教程》第64页。