英语语言学PAPER 67.6 Paper 6

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I. Directions: Choose the best answer to fill in the following statements. Write your answers in the Answer Sheet. (1.5×10=15’)

1. The study of language development over a period of time is generally termed as ______________ linguistics.

A. applied

B. diachronic

C. synchronic

D. comparative

2. The words “daddy” and “father” are a pair of ______________ synonyms.

A. dialectal

B. stylistic

C. collocational D semantically different

3. Language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. This feature is called____________.

A. displacement

B. duality

C. flexibility

D. cultural transmission

4. The word “liquor” in contemporary English is an alcoholic drink, but it was once synonymous with “liquid”, be it alcoholic or not. The phenomenon is called semantic ______________.

A. broadening

B. narrowing

C. entailment

D. shift

5. If we think of a sentence as what people actually utter in the course of communication, it becomes a(n) _________.

A. constative

B. directive

C. utterance

D. expressive

6. The word “coup d'etat” in English is a manifestation of _______________.

A. loanshift

B. loan translation

C. loanblend

D. loan word

7. The semantic components of the word “man” can be expressed as _________.

A. ＋animate,＋human,＋male,－adult

B. ＋animate,＋human,－male,－adult

C. ＋animate,＋human,＋male,＋adult

D. —animate,＋human,－male,－adult

8. The process by which “edit” is formed by taking away the suffix of “editor” is known as _______________.

A. back-formation

B. abbreviation

C. blending

D. compounding

9. In the following dialogue, B does not give enough information that is required, and he has flouted the maxim of _____________.

A: Do you know where Mr. Smith lives?

B: Somewhere in the southern suburbs of the city.

A. quality

B. quantity

C. relation

D. manner

10. The way in which people address each other depends on their age, sex, social group, and personal relationship. The English system of address forms frequently used includes first name, last name, title + last name, _____________, and kin term.

A. title + first name

B. title + title

C. title alone D first name + last name + title

II. Fill in the blanks with the most suitable words. Each blank represents one word. Write your answers in the A nswer Sheet. (1.5×10=15’)

11. B__________ refers to a linguistic situation in which two standard languages are used either by an individual or by a group of speakers, such as the inhabitants of a particular region or nation.

12. In terms of the number of individual speakers and individual languages, English belongs to