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Charpter1 1.1.1 1.a.This sentence may have three interpretations: 1)He rolled from side to side in his grave.2)He returned his grave.3)He handed in his grave.b.There are two interpretations to this sentence: 1)They gave preference to both young men and young women.2)They gave preference to women and young men.2.Units that have reference: I, saw, Mary, went, the library.Units that indicate structure: when, to.3.a.This sentence is grammatical, but is nonsensical.b.This sentence is ungrammatical and nonsensical.c.This is a good sentence.d.This is a good sentence.1.1.2 1.a.This sign is a symbol.It means we will have good luck.I know it from my cultural background, because the Chinese character “福” means “luck” and the color red symbolizes “goodne”.The Chinese meaning of “upside down” is “倒”, which has the similar pronunciation of “到(arrive)”.Thus, when the character “福” is put upside down, it means that luck arrives.b.This sign is an icon.It means no smoking, and I know it from the picture.c.This sign is a mixture of a symbol and a icon.It means that “parking” is only allowed for disabled people.2.I think the house is on fire because smoke is a index of fire.3.To the physician, it means that the man has got a fever.4.I think so, but not exactly, because the difference of the consonants does not mean the bird in different places cries differently.1.1.3 1.according to the arbitrarine theory, the forms of linguistic signs bear no natural resemblance to their meaning.The link between them is a matter of convention.Thus, the name Xiao Long is just a label for the son.However, in Chinese culture dragon was the symbol for the emperor.Thus, the name may have certain aociative meanings.2.No.The speaker of a language, based upon the convention established in the speech community, aociates linguistic signs with things and concepts.In people's mind, “pig” stands for foolishne and lazine.If I name it Pig Hair Shampoo, no one will buy it.3.Words are arbitrary in form, but they are not random in their use.Although the link between form and meaning is arbitrary, there existed certain relationship between them, which can be called rules.The individual does not have the power to change a sign in any way once it has become established in the linguistic community.1.1.4 1.I prefer to use the spoken language.In a supermarket, the spoken language is much more convenient for people to communicate with each other.People do not have the time and neceity to use written language in communication.2.I think listening and speaking should come first.The primary medium of language is sound, and language is primarily vocal.What's more, children can learn to listen and speak a foreign language more quickly than they read and write.1.1.5 1.No, I don't agree with this point of view.Language is human specific, so humans and dogs can not communicate with each other.2.A parrot only can say what it is taught.It can not form an infinite set of utterances from a finite use of units.So, a parrot talking can not be equated with human language.3.That is only the result of the stimulus-response training.4.Human language is primary over animal communication in the following aspects: 1)Human has the ability to refer to things far remote in time and space.In contrast, it may be impoible for an animal to convey such ability.2)Human has the ability to produce and understand an indefinite number of novel utterances, but no animal can communicate creatively with another animal.3)Learning is much more important as a factor in human language than in animal communication.4)Human language structure and language use are vastly more complex than any animal communication system.5)Animal communication systems are closed-ended, whereas human languages are open-ended.1.1.6 1.The advanced technology such as telephones and the Internet makes human communication become much more convenient and frequent.People can communicate with others in remote places freely.2.There may exist several causes: 1)The sender can not expre himself or herself clearly.2)The receiver can not understand what the sender said.3)The receiver is unwilling to communicate with the sender.4)There exists misunderstanding because of the different cultural background of the sender and the receiver.3.We must pay key attention to learning the knowledge of the ways of thinking, acting and speaking of a language, for differences in this kind of knowledge may cause trouble in intercultural communication.1.2.1 1.a.Physiological function b.Performative function c.Phatic function d.Informative function 2.People like poetry because people can enjoy the rhythm and the melody of certain combinations of sounds in the poetry.And most creative uses of language in the poetry can provide people considerable pleasure through the generation of puns, paradoxes, ambiguities and metaphors.3.I may not say anything, but move the desk away.1.2.2 1.General functions refer to the particular individual uses of language whilst metafunctions refer to the larger, more general purposes underlying language use.2.No.According to Halliday, every sentence in a text is multifunctional and has three metafunctions simultaneously: ideational, interpersonal and textual functions.3.Halliday's functional theory emphasizes the relationship between language structure and the language functions in social life, while the traditional grammar emphasizes the forms of the sentence.1.3.1 1.I agree to the evolutionary theory which tends to believe that man evolved from lower forms of life, and so did language.This is a scientific approach to the origin of language as it is based on a wide range of studies over years by biologists, anthropologists, psychologists, neurologists, primatologists and linguists.With many significant changes since its early introduction, the evolutionary theory shows us the origin of language from various aspects, such as the organic evolution, environmental factors.2.轰隆、乒乓、叽叽嘎嘎、叽里咕噜、汪汪
3.Onomatopoetic words are imitations of the sounds of nature, and emotional ejaculations of pain, fear, surprise, pleasure, anger, etc.According to the invention theory, onomatopoetic words form the basis of language, or at least the core of the basic vocabulary.1.3.2 1.Usually, there are two main ways of claifying languages: the genetic(or genealogical)and the typological.The historical claification is based on the aumption that languages have diverged from a common ancestor.This criteria is to research into the history and relatedne of languages.On the other hand, the typological claification is based on a comparison of the formal similarities which exist between languages.It is an attempt to group languages into structural types, on the basis of phonology, grammar, or vocabulary, rather than in terms of any real or aumed historical relationship.2.Currently, we cannot say that all languages in the world derived from one common ancestor.It might be true that some languages have diverged from one common ancestor, for example, French, Spanish, Italian and other Romance languages were clearly descended from Latin, but no evidence show that all languages in the world have the same origin.As research shows, there are at least 29 language families in the world.However, this problem will be solved when we have enough evidence to show that human beings have one common ancestor.3.The major causes for the language diversity in the world include grammatical structure, historical factors, social factors, intercultural contact, etc.1.4.1 1.The two sentences perform the same function of requesting.However, The two sentences have different choices of words and syntax structures.Sentence(a)is structurally an imperative sentence, while Sentence(b)takes the form of a question and the word 'please' is added.So, the effects of the two utterances are different.Sentence(b)would sound more polite.When we are decoding them, we would take into account such factors as choice of words and syntactic structures, the principle of politene and the context.2.As a science, linguistics demands a scientific outlook upon language.To conduct a study of language scientifically, we must take an objective view of language and all linguistic phenomena and study language and reflect on it in a detached and unbiased way.Even a local variety with few native speakers may also fall within our investigations.Moreover, we should adopt the general principles of empirical research procedures to observe and analyze data found in natural languages.3.The real object of linguistics is to find out fundamental rules that underlie all the languages in the world.We need to look into the common features of all languages, the range of variations among languages, the difference of human languages from animal communication, the change and evolution of language, the relation of language to mind and society, and so on.1.4.2 1.It is very important to study speech in linguistics, because language is primarily vocal.As we know, no community has a written form only, though many have a spoken language only.Children learn spoken language first and most easily.Earlier in the 20th century certain linguists began to doubt the priority of writing.Bloomfield argued that writing was not language but merely a way of recording language.The contemporary linguistics maintains that the spoken language is primary and that writing is eentially a means of representing speech in another medium.Linguistics has streed the priority of speech because it is the “natural,” or primary, medium in which language is manifest, and written language derives from the transference of speech to a secondary, visual medium.2.There is no absolute standard of correctne because linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive.Different groups of people may use different varieties of language.The correctne in language use should not be prescribed grammatically.3.In reality, it is impoible to have a standard language.The reason is that linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive.There is no absolute standard of correctne.What's more, as we know, with the paage of time, all languages are subject to change.All living languages are there to serve the different social needs of the communities that use them.As these needs change, languages will tend to change to meet the new situations.Thus, a standard language is not poible.1.5.1 1.There are many external factors related to language.Cultural factors influence the full meaning of the language conveys.Social factors include the social backgrounds of both the speaker and the addreee(i.e.their age, sex, social cla, ethnic background, degree of integration into their neighborhood, etc.), the relationship between speaker and addreee and the context and manner of the interaction.Psychological factors have effects on people's behaviors.2.Though there are many translation softwares in the market, translations done by machines are full of errors and require much post-editing.The key problem is the lack of a good linguistic theory to provide a frame of reference for machine translation.It is unlikely that machines will replace human translators.3.Foreign language learning and teaching involves several interrelated factors.These are: linguistic theories, situational factors, input and interaction, learner differences, learner procees, linguistic output, curriculum and syllabus design, teaching methodology, learner and teacher roles, textbook writing, language planning, and so on.1.5.2 1.Linguistic studies have gone through many changes.Since the 1930s down to the present, the expansion of knowledge in so many directions have led to several attempts to make synthesis and to develop a unified theory of language.Several schools of thought have emerged round a few prominent linguists such as Firth, Halliday, Hjelmslev and Chomsky, major centers of linguistic study like Prague School, Geneva School, Copenhagen School, and leading concepts such as structuralism, functionalism, tagmemics, systemic functional grammar, transformational generative grammar, speech act theory.2.I think discourse analysis is a proper way to study language.Traditional linguistic analysis has concentrated on the internal structure of sentences, but discourse analysis is interested in the analysis of units larger than sentences.Thus, the term discourse or text refers to all linguistic units with a definable communicative function, spoken or written.It strees the need to see language as a dynamic, social, and interactive phenomenon.3.A corpus is always needed in linguistics.Over the past few years, the study of language in actual use has required a corpus-based research.Scholars need a corpus to analyze patterns of use in natural texts.The importance of corpus to language study is aligned to the importance of empirical data because empirical data enable the linguist to make objective statements, rather than those based upon the individual's own subjective perception of language.So, corpus linguistics should be seen as a subset of the activity within an empirical approach to linguistics.Charpter 2 2.1.1 1.Articulatory phonetics deals with the identification and claification of individual sounds.It attempts to provide a framework of the nature of speech sounds and how they are produced.Acoustic phonetics focuses on the analysis and measurement of sound waves.It studies the physical characteristics of speech sounds as they are determined and measured by machines, and attempts to deduce the acoustic basis of speech production and perception.2.The speech chain consists of three stages: the production of the meage, the transmiion of the meage and the reception of the meage.According to Ball and Rahilly, there are a series of activities in the speech chain.First, there is physiological activity in the brain of the speaker.Then the brain sends instructions to a variety of muscles of vocal organs.The result is a range of muscle contractions and physical movement of structures such as the rib cage, the larynx, the tongue and so on.In turn, these movements give rise to an aerodynamic phase of the speech chain, whereby air flows through the vocal tract.This airflow interacts with continued movement of structures such as the vocal folds, tongue, lips and soft palate to produce the different features of speech.This modified airflow through the vocal tract impinges on the air surrounding the speaker.3.Spelling is not the same as pronunciation in English.For example, in pronunciation, the “h” in the word “hour” is silent.“ph” in the word “elephant” is pronounced as [f], which seems to have nothing to do with its spelling.Another example might be a pair of words like “meet” and “meat”, who have the same pronunciation but different spellings and meanings.2.1.2 1.In the production of speech, the vocal tract sets a column of air into motion, and then modifies this moving air-stream in a number of ways to produce the sounds of speech.2.When describing individual sound segments, phoneticians and linguists often employ two parameters to examine how sounds are articulated: manner of articulation and place of articulation.In terms of manner, sounds are claified into plosives, nasals, fricatives, affricates, approximants, trills and taps.When examined from view of place of articulation, sounds are divided into groups like bilabials, dentals, post-alveolar, retroflex, uvular, glottal, labiodentals, alveolar, palatal, velar and pharyngeal sounds.3.Bilabial, dental and labiodental sounds are different from one another in terms of place of articulation.Bilabials are articulations made with the upper and lower lips brought together.In bilabial stops they form an air-tight seal producing the plosives [p, b] or, if the velum is lowered, the nasal [m].Dentals are produced by the front of the tongue touching the back of the upper front teeth.Dental sounds are generally apical.Dental fricatives occur in English as pronunciations of the 'th' spellings.The voicele dental fricative of 'th' in 'thin', whereas its voiced counterpart
is the sound
is the sound of 'th' in 'then'.Labiodentals are articulations produced with the lower lip approximating to the underside of the upper front teeth.For example, in English the [f] in fat and the [v] in vat are labiodental fricatives.2.1.3
3.First of all, vowels and consonants appear in different places in English words.Secondly, vowels and consonants are produced differently.Vowels are made by egreive pulmonic airflow through vibrating or constricted vocal folds and through the vocal tract, and the sound is modified in the oral cavity.Consonants are made by constricting the vocal tract at some point thereby diverting, impeding, or completely shutting off the flow of air in the oral cavity.2.1.4 1.Narrow transcription captures the exact articulatory details of each sound.It records as many features of an utterance as can be ascertained by the person doing the recording.On the contrary, broad transcription is a le subtle transcription.It omits many of the irrelevant and predictable details of pronunciation and is perfectly suitable for many users.2.Omitted.2.2.1 1.Phoneme is the minimum phonemic unit that is not further analyzable into smaller units susceptible of concomitant occurrence.In other words, a phoneme is a block that cannot be broken down into smaller parts;it is the smallest element relevant to phonemic analysis.Allophone is the phonetic variant of a phoneme.2.Omitted.3.[p] and [b] are different phonemes because they represent distinctive sounds.In addition, if we substitute one sound for the other, it results in a change of meaning.2.2.2 1.When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment that occurs in the same place in the string, the two words are called minimal pairs.For instance, “deed” and “seed” are minimal pairs, but “deed” and “dog” are not because the vowel and final consonant in these two sounds are different.2.a)/p/-/b/: pig-big;gap-gab;b)/k/-/g/: coat-goat;back-bag;c)/f/-/v/: life-live;fife-five;
d)/m/-/n/: meat-neat;time-tine;e)/r/-/l/: right-light;sear-seal 3.2.2.3 1.Distinctive features can be used to distinguish one phoneme from another or one group of sounds from another group.Thus, “distinctive” means serving to identify, distinguishing.2.The distinctive features for each group of sounds are: a)[p, t, b, d]: [-high,-back] b)[j, w, i, u]: [+voiced, +high] 3.a)life, lives: similarities: [-high,-back], differences: life [f]: [-voiced];lives[v]: [+voiced] b)choice, choose: similarities: [-high,-back];differences: choice[s]: [-voiced], choose [z]: [+voiced] c)deduce, deduction: similarities: [+back];differences: deduce: [-high,-round], deduction: [+high, +round] 2.3.1 1.Edinburgh, Wednesday, Thames are words in which pronunciation does not match the spelling.2.These words are not permiible in English.All languages have constraints on the permitted sequences of phonemes.*tpray, *btry, *tgharg do not sound like an English word because it does not conform to the restrictions on the sequencing of phonemes.When three consonants occur, the first must be [s].2.3.2 1.When two or more sounds never occur in an identical phonemic context or environment, they are said to be in complementary distribution.That is to say, complementary distribution refers to the case in which one of two or more sounds occur in a context to the exclusion of other sound(s), i.e.in a context in which the other sound(s)never occur(s).2.For the speaker, the Chinese consonants [sh] and [x] are the same.So, to him, there is no need to distinguish these two sounds, and he pronounces the two consonants in the same way..2.4.1 1.Structurally, the syllable may be divided into three parts: the onset, the peak, and the coda.The onset of a syllable consists of all the segments that precede the peak and are tautosyllabic with it.The peak is realized by a vowel.The coda consists of all the tautosyllabic segments that follow the peak.A syllable that has no coda is called an unchecked or open syllable;one with a coda is called a checked or closed syllable.2.The word “yesterday” has three syllables.ye-ster-day.“extra” has two syllables.ex-tra “secretarial” has four syllables.se-cre-ta-rial “camera” has three syllables.ca-me-ra “appreciation” has five syllables.a-pre-ci-a-tion 3.English has syllables that begin with vowels and onsets of from one to three consonants.In English, three-consonant onsets are highly restricted in their composition.The first consonants in such onsets must be an s, the second a voicele stop, and the third a liquid.Moreover, if the second consonant is t, the third must be r.2.4.2 1.2.Stre in English is very important.English is a stre language.The rhythm of spoken English is to a very large extent determined by strong beats falling on the streed syllables of words.Thus, a typical spoken utterance of English will consist of a number of rhythmic units.Each unit is dominated by the beat of the streed syllable.In verse, the wording is characteristically and deliberately organized to yield a regular rhythm, and the units of this rhythm are commonly called 'feet'.This kind of rhythm puts a characteristic stamp on the nature of spoken English.2.4.3 1.Pitch is a suprasegmental quality which extends over individual segments and longer stretches of speech.Pitch is the perceived frequency of a sound wave.Perceived pitch is largely determined by the frequency of vibration of the vocal folds, and to some extent by the intensity of the sound.2.Pitch is very important in Chinese.Different pitches on Chinese characters can lead to meaning differences.For example, “fei”, when given different pitches, may mean “飞(fly)”, “肥(fat)”, “匪(bandit)” or “沸(boil)”.2.4.4 1.The intonation patterns of the following English questions are: a)It begins with a mid pitch, rises to a higher pitch and then falls.b)Falling.c)Rising.d)It begins with a mid pitch, falls to a lower pitch and then rises.2.Intonations refer to the pitch differences that extend over phonetic units larger than the syllable.Intonation serves several functions in verbal communication such as grouping words, emphasizing words and differentiating meanings.3.Intonation plays a very important role in daily conversations.In some languages, such as English and Chinese, the same sequence of segments may have different meanings if uttered at different relative pitches.Keys to Linguistics of Xiamen University Charpter 3 3.1.1 1.A word is characterized with the following four features:(1)A word is a sound or combination of sounds which we make voluntarily with our vocal organs.(2)A word is symbolic, i.e.it stands for something else, such as objects, happenings or ideas.(3)A word is part of the large communication system we call language.(4)Words help human beings to interact culturally with one another.2.The relation between the sound or sound combination of a word and its meaning is almost always arbitrary.There is no logical relationship between the sound or the combination of sounds which stands for an entity(including a thing, a happening or an idea)and the entity itself.On the one hand, the same sound may stand for different entities in different languages.On the other hand, the same meaning can be represented by different sound of combination of sounds.3.Apart from the conceptual meaning(also called “denotative”, “logical” or “cognitive” meaning), a word normally has various aociated meanings, including the connotative meaning, social meaning, affective meaning, reflected meaning, and collocative meaning.We can turn to the dictionary for its conceptual meaning.As for its various aociated meanings, however, we have to relate the word with its context, including the linguistic context as well as the context of situation and the context of culture.3.1.2 1.In(prep.)practice(n.), writers(n.)on(prep.)style(n.)have(primary v.)differed(full v.)a(det.)great(adj.)deal(n.)in(prep.)their(pron.)understanding(n.)of(prep.)the(det.)subject(n.), and(conj.)one(num.)source(n.)of(prep.)disagreement(n.)has(primary v.)been(full v.)the(det.)question(n.)“To(prep.)what(pron.)or whom(pron.)do(primary v.)we(pron.)attribute(full v.)style(n.)? In(prep.)the(det.)broadest(adj.)sense(n.), STYLE(n.)can(modal v.)be(primary v.)applied(full v.)to(prep.)both(adv.)spoken(adj.)and(conj.)written(adj.), both(adv.)literary(adj.)and(conj.)non-literary(adj.)varieties(n.)of(prep.)language(n.);but(conj.)by(prep.)tradition(n.), it(pron.)is(full v.)particularly(adv.)aociated(full v.)with(prep.)written(adj.)literary(adj.)texts(n.), and(conj.)this(pron.)is(full v.)the(det.)sense(n.)of(prep.)the(det.)term(n.)which(pron.)will(modal v.)concern(full v.)us(pron.).2.No.These two categories of words have different distribution in speech and writing.Lexical words denote objects, happenings, ideas and their attributes, features, and/or manners, thus relating the words with entities existing outside the text.Grammatical words, instead, denote certain grammatical meanings, thus relating one element within the text with another.In speech there are more grammatical words, while in writing there are more lexical words.Moreover, the more formal the style is, the more lexical words there are.3.Open-cla words refer to those claes of words to which we can add new words.In English, nouns, notional verbs, adjectives and adverbs belong to this category.Such words normally convey certain semantic contents and thus are also called ”content words“.Closed-cla words refer to those claes to which new words can hardly be added.In English, closed-cla words include pronouns, determiners, conjunctions, relatives, prepositions, auxiliary verbs, modal verbs and the linking verb ”to be“.Their roles in the linguistic system are partly or wholly grammatical and thus are also called ”grammatical words“.3.2.1 1.1)un-+ bear +-able 2)watch +-ful 3)person+-ify(i)+-cation
4)un-+ exception +-al +-ly 5)un-+educate +-(e)d 6)inspir(e)+-ing
7)soft + heart +-ed 8)horse + man +-ship 2.1)3: geo-+-graph +-y 2)4: inter-+nation +-al +-ly 3)2: forget +-(t)en 4)1: Washington 5)2: inform +-ation 6)4: industry(i)+-al +-iz(e)+-ation 7)3: pre-+ dominat(e)+-ant 8)2: pre-+ conscious 3.The plural s has 5 morphologically-conditioned allomorphs:(1)-(e)s, as in ”cats“, ”matches“;(2)-(r)en: as in ”oxen“, ”children“;(3)-e-: as in ”men“, ”women“;(4)-ee-, as in ”feet“, ”teeth“;and(5)zero, as in ”sheep“, ”deer“.3.2.2 1.1)inspire: into 2)intransigent: not 3)insufficient: not 4)insert: into 5)insoluble: not 6)intact: not 7)impenetrable: not 8)immutable: not 9)illicit: not 10)irretrievable: not 2.1)princeempre 3)waiterfiancée 6)heroqueen 8)oxshe-wolf 10)doctor-woman doctor 3.1)operationresponsibilities 3)proposalmodernization 5)beautifyactivates 7)funnyfriendlier 3.3.1 1.Inflection refers to the proce of adding an affix to a word or changing it in some other way according to the grammatical rules of the language.English inflections are used to expre certain grammatical meanings: the plural morpheme {s} to change the noun into the plural-number form, the generative-case morpheme {'s} to indicate the relation of poeion, the feminine-gender morpheme {e} to change the masculine noun into its corresponding feminine-gender form, the third-person singular {s} to change the verb into the third-person singular form, the-ing participle {ing} to change the verb into the-ing participle, the past-form morpheme {ed} to change the verb into the past-tense form, the past-participle morpheme {ed} to change the verb into the-ing participle, the comparative {er} to change an adjective into the comparative-degree form, and the superlative {est} to change an adjective into the superlative-degree form.2.No, inflection is not universal.Different languages have different morphology.There are languages, like Latin and Sanskrit, which abound in inflectional morphemes.There are also languages, like Chinese, which have no inflectional morphemes.Between these two extremes are some intermediate languages, like English, which have comparatively few inflectional morphemes than languages of the first category.3.Omitted.3.3.2 1.1)paword: word to be paed 2)housewife: wife in charge of a household 3)sunshine: shine of the sun 4)milkman: man who sells or delivers milk 5)sunflower: plant whose flower faces the sun 6)apple pie: pie consisting of a filling of apples 7)mosquito net: net to prevent mosquitoes 8)daydream: dream in the daytime 9)freezing-point: point at which a liquid freezes 10)flashlight: light of a flash 2.Abbreviation refers to the way in which a longer word or expreion is abbreviated or shortened.In both English and Chinese, longer words can be abbreviated via clipping, blending, and initials and acronyms.However, differences exist.While English words are made up of letters which can be pronounced into syllables, Chinese words are made up of characters each of which is normally pronounced as a separate syllable.While the English language differentiates blending, initials and acronyms, the Chinese language makes no such differentiation.In Chinese, the major approach to abbreviating a longer expreion is usually to combine the first character of each of the constituent words into a shortened expreion, in which the constituent characters are pronounced individually.Another commonly-used way of abbreviation in Chinese is to combine a numeral and the head word of a series of parallel constructions, as in ”四化“.3.The English language normally adds new words to its vocabulary through coinage, compounding, derivation, abbreviation, imitation, and borrowing.3.4.1 1.1)11：他/在/学校/表现/很/好/，是/个/优秀/学生/干部/。
2)12：这里/的/水果/真/多/，到处/是/荔枝/、香蕉/、芒果/、樱桃/、西瓜/。
3)24：Had/ the/ construction/ worker/ not/ seen/ the/ attack/ as/ he/ was/ driving/ to/ work/ early/ and/ jumped/ in/ to/ try/ and/ help/, she/ might/ have/ died/, police/ said/.（The following lexemes occur twice in the sentence: the primary verb ”have“(had/have), the determiner ”the“, the infinitive marker ”to“.）
4)12：Astronomers/ are/ elated/ by/ the/ discovery/ of/ an/ object/ that/ rivals/ the/ size/ of/ Pluto's/ moon/.(The determiner ”the“ occurs twice in the sentence.)2.A lexeme refers to the smallest unit in the meaning system of a language that can be distinguished from other smaller units whereas a word refers to the smallest form of a language that can occur by itself.A lexeme may be or may not be identical with a word.For example, the definite article ”the“ is both a lexeme and a word.However, the lexeme ”put up with“ has three different words.3.Collocation refers to the habitual co-occurrence of individual lexical items.In a word, collocation is the linguistic reflection of certain conventional relations conceived by the native speakers of a language between the lexical items and/or between the realities represented by these lexical items.Collocated lexical items fall into four categories:(1)Logical collocations: Some lexical items are allowable to co-occur because the objects, happenings, ideas and/or their properties they denote normally co-occur in the context of situation or culture.(2)Semantic collocations: Some lexical items are collocations because the contents they denote are normally related with each other.(3)Lexical collocations: Such collocations involve the habitual co-occurrence of lexical items of different categories because of certain expreional conventions.(4)Grammatical collocations: Some lexical items co-occur because of certain grammatical restrictions.3.4.2 1.Idioms refer to phrasal lexemes which have relatively regular lexical meaning and restricted grammatical variation.By definition, idioms are relatively fixed in structure.We cannot alter or substitute its component words of our own will.For example, we cannot alter the idiomatic greeting ”How do you do?“ into ”How did you do?“, nor can we substitute the adjective ”green“ in the idiomatic expreion ”green with envy“ with ”red“.2.Language is the reflection of human knowledge of the world.With the constant economic, technological, social and cultural development and the expansion of human beings' knowledge of nature, the society and themselves, they have to create new words and expreions to denote the new natural and/or social phenomena, their new discoveries, new inventions and new perceptions.As a result, the lexicon of a language is constantly expanding.3.Proverbs refer to a brief epigram or maxim.They are always succinct in language and pregnant in meaning.In other words, they are the condensed summary of the experiences and wisdom of a culture.They not only help the members of a culture to expre themselves wittily and tersely but also enable the community to pa their experiences and wisdom from one generation to another.Some proverbs are instructive.Charpter 4 4.1.1 1.No.Immediate constituent analysis is solely concerned with the surface structures of language, which only shows the physical manifestation of the language, for example, linear order of a sentence.One approach to explain sentences with discontinuous constituents is to represent them by two phrase markers, which will be structurally related.One phrase marker is derived from another.By transformational grammar, the discontinuous constituents can be accounted for effectively.Transformational rules are responsible for the generation of infinitely many phrase markers not generated directly by the phrase-structure rules.2.1)
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3.(a)a)The door was shut down.b)The store was not open for busine.(b)a)I don't like the painting of Jack.b)I don't like the painting owned by Jack.(c)a)I chalked a picture of the woman on the blackboard.b)I drew a picture of the woman who had a piece of chalk in her hand.4.1.2 1.(b)2.(a)
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4.3.1 1.Surface structure can be derived from deep structure.A surface structure may be represented by more than one phrase marker, which in sense is the same to a single phrase marker.This one single phrase marker is said to be the deep structure.In the operation from deep structure to surface structure, phrase structure rules and modifications are needed to add, delete, or permute constituents.The relations between deep and surface structures are to be revealed through transformational rules.In this proce, the order or hierarchic relationship of the constituents is to be changed.The actual pronunciation is based on the surface structure.2.The above two sentences have different deep structures.They appear to be similar in surface structure, but speakers of English know that in(a), the subject ”He“ is the doer of the action, and it is different from the object complement ”a good wife“ in reference.In(b), the subject ”He“ and the object complement ”a good husband“ are identical in reference.4.3.2 1.(a)The relevant parts for the paive transformational rule of the above sentence are the subject NP(here the public), the object NP(here the bo, which will change positions with the public), the V(criticize)and AUX, and then a be + en auxiliary will be inserted.The deep structure should be its corresponding active variant, which is The public criticized the bo of the bus company severely.(b)In the derivation of The woman threw the rake away in the yard., the underlying structure, The woman threw away the rake in the yard.is also the deep structure.It is generated by the phrase-structure rules, including the rule which states that a V(verb)consists of a Vprt(verbs that can combine with verbal particles)and a Prt(verbal particles).In the surface structure, a new phrase marker is produced in which the particle is moved to the right of the NP.(c)The question rule formulates that in order to form a yes-no question from the declarative sentence, move the first auxiliary verb of the main sentence(in this case, will)immediately before the first NP of that sentence(here, the new school master).So, the deep structure of the question should be its declarative variant, which is The new school master will hire her.2.(a)A wh interrogative sentence is derived by a movement rule from a deep structure similar to that of the declarative counterpart.So, the sentence like What can the computer program do for us? would derive from a deep structure in the form of The computer program can do ”what“ for us?.The wh-element occurs initially and is followed by tense and an auxiliary.In this sentence, the object is fronted.First, the interrogative transformation which switches round the auxiliary verb can and the subject the computer programknown as 'wh' movementthey all presuppose that the dog barked at the shadow.In other words, the truth value of the three utterances is dependent on the truth value of the presupposition.If the presupposition is true, then the three utterances are true.If the presupposition is false, then the three utterances are false.In contrast, in 1)and 5), the truth value of the statement ”The dog barked at the shadow“ is uncertain.In other words, we do not know for sure from the two utterances whether the dog barked at the shadow or not.2.1)This utterance presupposes that ”You have been eaten raw oysters“.The presupposition trigger is the verb ”stop“.2)This utterance presupposes that ”Little Franz had not studied French better before“.The presupposition trigger is the verb ”regretted“.3)This utterance presupposes that ”Catherine does not know anything about this event“.The presupposition trigger is the verb ”pretends“.4)This utterance presupposes that ”Mark Twain found the best setting for most of his best novels in the Miiippi valley“.The presupposition trigger is the emphatic construction ”It was … that …“.5)This utterance presupposes that ”You have helped us in the experiment“.The presupposition trigger is the verb ”appreciate“.6.3.2 1)Here(b)is the preferred response while(a)is the dispreferred.When A invites B to come and join them in the picnic, he or she normally expects the addreee to accept the invitation rather than decline it.2)Here(a)is the preferred response while(b)is the dispreferred.When A asks B to comment on a certain lady's performance, the positive response is more preferable than the negative(though modulated for the sake of politene)one.3)Here(a)is the preferred response while(b)is the dispreferred.When A requests B to do him or her a favor, he or she normally expects a positive response rather than a negative(though indirect for the sake of politene)one.6.4.1 1)In this utterance, 6 reference items are used in the second sentence to contribute to the coherence of the text.Firstly, the poeive determiner their and the poeive pronoun theirs, and the personal pronouns them and they are used to refer anaphorically to ”the children next door“.Secondly, the definite article the is used together with the noun toy to refer anaphorically to the noun phrase ”a toy“.Thirdly, the personal pronoun it is used to refer anaphorically to the noun phrase ”a toy“ and ”the toy“.2)In this utterance, 1 reference item is used in the first clause to contribute to the coherence of the text.Namely, the personal pronoun he is used to refer cataphorically to the proper name ”Alex“.3)In this utterance, the personal pronoun it is used in the fourth clause to refer anaphorically to the previous sentence ”If it rained day and night for two weeks, the basement flooded and everything was under water“.This clausal reference contributes to the coherence of the text by connecting the second sentence with the first one.4)In this utterance, the pronoun one is used in the second clause to refer anaphorically to the noun phrase ”a stamp“ in the first clause.This helps to connect the second clause with the first and thus contributes to the coherence of the text.5)In this utterance, the comparative Adjunct otherwise is used to make a contrast between Daddy's having a bit of cold and other aspects of his health.This helps to connect the two clauses into a coherent text.6.4.2 1.1)In this utterance, the pronoun one is used in the second sentence to substitute the noun ”book“.This establishes a comparison between the two sentences and connect them into a cohesive text.2)In this dialogue, B uses the pro-verb ”(have)done“ to substitute the verb phrase ”(have)succeeded in his ambitions“.This helps to connect B's utterances with A's into a cohesive text.3)In this dialogue, B uses the pronoun so to substitute the previous clause ”The Chicago Bulls will win the game“.This(together the ellipsis in the next clause, i.e.they will [win the game])helps to connect the two utterances into a cohesive text.4)In this dialogue, B uses the clausal substitute not to replace the previous clause(i.e.We will probably join in your excursion this weekend)to avoid unneceary repetition.This helps to connect the two utterances into a cohesive text.2.1)In this dialogue, two clausal ellipses can be identified in B's utterance(i.e.I don't know how long I will be in here.You could ask matron how long I will be in here.).They help to connect B's utterance with A's into a cohesive text.2)In this dialogue, a verbal ellipsis can be identified in B's utterance(i.e.but Bob didn't care to take the course).This, together with the verbal substitution of did for the verb phrase ”take the course“, connects B's utterance with A's into a cohesive text.6.4.3 1)In this paage, there is one conjunctive expreion, namely, moreover at the beginning of the second sentence.This conjunctive expreion contributes to the cohesion of the paage by adding more information to the first sentence concerning the role of the media in shaping the social and moral norms in the American society.2)Three sequences of conjunctive expreions are used in this paage.The first sequence is the conjunctive expreions of listing, i.e.to begin in sentence 2finally in sentence(12).The second sequence is the repetition of some of the questions in sentence 6some of them in sentence 10.The third sequence includes two expreions of exemplification, i.e.for example in sentence 7 and for instance in sentence 11.Together they contribute to make the paage a cohesive text.6.4.4 1)In this paage, the author uses many expreions to describe his miserable life as a member of the working cla.Such expreions include beneath the point at which I had started in sentence 1, down in the cellar of society and down in the subterranean depths of misery in sentence 3, the pit, the aby, the human cepool, the shambles and charnel-house of our civilization in sentence 3, the part of the edifice of society in sentence 4.Besides, the author also repeats the infinitive phrase ”to ignore“ in sentences 4 and 5.With these lexical cohesive ties, the author makes the paage a cohesive text.2)In this paage, the author uses the following lexical cohesive ties:(a)the repetition of the adjectives ”clean“, ”noble“ and ”clean“ and their derivatives, including ”(men who were)clean, noble, and alive“ and ”(whose ideas were)clean, noble, and alive in sentence 2, “(many that were)clean and noble” and “not alive” in sentence 4, “(they were)not alive”, “unclean(life)”, “clean and noble” and “not alive” in sentence 6.(b)the use of a series of parallel constructions ate with them, drank wine with them, automobiled with them, and studied them in sentence 4.(c)the repetition of the adjective paionle in sentence 7.The author uses these expreions to describe the sharp contrast between his expectation of the “masters” and the reality.6.5.1 1)He owed the tailor twenty dollars.→ It was the tailor whom he owed twenty dollars.2)“there” is the theme, and the rest of the sentence is the rheme.3)“Trees, forced by the damp heat” is the theme, and the rest of the sentence is the rheme.4)“Whether they come or not” is the theme, and the rest of the sentence is the rheme.5)“Getting the car on the boat” is the theme, and the rest of the sentence is the rheme.6)“It …getting the car on the boat” is the theme, and the rest of the sentence is the rheme.7)“Is” is the theme, and the rest of the sentence is the rheme.8)“Only once” is the theme, and the rest of the sentence is the rheme.6.5.2 1)He owed the tailor twenty dollars.→ It was the tailor whom he owed twenty dollars.2)The impoible has often proved poible.→ It is the impoible that has often proved poible.Or: What has often proved poible is the impoible.3)We have oral practice every other day.→ It is every other day that we have oral practice.4)We didn't leave the flat until we could smell the smoke in the corridor.→ It was not until we could smell the smoke in the corridor that we left the flat.5)The football match was cancelled because of the rain.→ It was because of the rain that the football match was cancelled.
