英语专业考研语言学复习大纲语言史.docx
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英语专业考研语言学复习大纲语言史
Chapter7:
HistoricalLinguistics
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I. DecidewhethereachofthefollowingstatementsisTrueorFalse:
1. Oneofthetasksofthehistoricallinguistsistoexploremethodstoreconstructlinguistichistoryandestablishtherelationshipbetweenlanguages.
2. Languagechangeisagradualandconstantprocess,thereforeoftenindiscernibletospeakersofthesamegeneration.
3. ThehistoryoftheEnglishlanguageisdividedintotheperiodsofOldEnglish,MiddleEnglishandModernEnglish.
4. MiddleEnglishbeganwiththearrivalofAnglo-Saxons,whoinvadedtheBritishIslesfromnorthernEurope.
5. InOldEnglish,allthenounsareinflectedtomarknominative,genitive,dativeandaccusativecases.
6. InOldEnglish,theverbofasentenceoftenprecedesthesubjectratherthanfollowsit.
7. AdirectconsequenceoftheRenaissanceMovementwastherevivalofFrenchasaliterarylanguage.
8. Ingeneral,linguisticchangeingrammarismorenoticeablethanthatinthesoundsystemandthevocabularyofalanguage.
9. Thesoundchangesincludechangesinvowelsounds,andintheloss,gainandmovementofsounds.
10. Theleastwidely-spreadmorphologicalchangesinthehistoricaldevelopmentofEnglisharethelossandadditionofaffixes.
11. InOldEnglish,themorphosyntacticruleofadjectiveagreementstipulatedthattheendingsofadjectivemustagreewiththeheadnounincase,numberandgender.
12. ThewordorderofModernEnglishismorevariablethanthatofOldEnglish.
13. Derivationreferstotheprocessbywhichnewwordsareformedbytheadditionofaffixestotheroots,stems,orwords.
14. “Smog”isawordformedbytheword-formingprocesscalledacronymy.
15. “fridge”isawordformedbyabbreviation.
16. Modernlinguistsareabletoprovideaconsistentaccountfortheexactcausesofalltypesoflanguagechange.
17. Soundassimilationmaybringaboutthelossofoneoftwophoneticallysimilarsyllablesinsequence,asinthecaseofchangeof“Engla-land”to“England”.
18. Ruleelaborationoccurswhenthereisaneedtoreduceambiguityandincreasecommunicativeclarityorexpressiveness.
19. Languagechangeisalwaysachangetowardsthesimplificationoflanguagerules
20. Thewaychildrenacquirethelanguageisoneofthecausesforlanguagechange.
II.Fillineachofthefollowingblankswithonewordwhichbeginswiththelettergiven:
21. H________linguisticsisthesubfieldoflinguisticsthatstudieslanguagechange.
22. Thehistoricalstudyoflanguageisad________studyoflanguageratherthanasynchronicstudy.
23. EuropeanR________MovementseparatestheperiodofMiddleEnglishfromthatofmodernEnglish.
24. Animportantsetofextensivesoundchanges,whichaffected7longortensevowelsandwhichledtooneofthemajordiscrepanciesbetweenphonemicrepresentationsofwordsandmorphemesattheendoftheMiddleEnglishPeriod,isknownastheGreatV_______Shift.
25. A_______involvesthedeletionofaword-finalvowelsegment.
26. Achangethatinvolvestheinsertionofaconsonantorvowelsoundtothemiddleofawordisknownase__________.
27. ThethreesetsofconsonantshiftsthatGrimmdiscoveredbecameknowncollectivelyasGrimmsL____.
28. Soundchangeasaresultofsoundmovement,knownasm_______,involvesareversalinpositionoftwoadjoiningsoundsegments.
29. B________isaprocessbywhichnewwordsareformedbytakingawaythesupposedsuffixesofexitingwords.
30. Semanticb________referstotheprocessinwhichthemeaningofawordbecomesmoregeneralorinclusivethanitshistoricallyearlierdenotation.
31. Theoriginalformofalanguagefamilythathasceasedtoexistiscalledthep_________.
32. Sounda________referstothephysiologicaleffectofonesoundonanother.Inthisprocess,successivesoundsaremadeidenticalorsimilartooneanotherintermsofplaceormannerofarticulation.
33. Inordertoreducetheexceptionalorirregularmorphemes,speakersofaparticularlanguagemayborrowarulefromonepartofthegrammarandapplyitgenerally.Thisphenomenoniscalledi_________borrowing.
34. Byidentifyingandcomparingsimilarlinguisticformswithsimilarmeaningsacrossrelatedlanguages,historicallinguistsreconstructtheprotoforminthecommonancestrallanguage.Thisprocessiscalledc________reconstruction.
35. Them____ruleofadjectiveagreementhasbeenlostfromEnglish.
III.Therearefourchoicesfollowingeachstatement.Markthechoicethatcanbestcompletethestatement:
36. Historicallinguisticsexplores________________.
A. thenatureoflanguagechange
B. thecausesthatleadtolanguagechange
C. therelationshipbetweenlanguages
D.alloftheabove
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