2012年北京航空航天大学英语专业（语言学）真题试卷
(总分：18.00，做题时间：90分钟)
一、简答题(总题数：9，分数：18.00)
1.What is an affix? Please exemplify any affixes that attach(relatively)productively to verbs and do not change the category.（分数：2.00）
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2.State the Referential Theory(or meaning triangle)put forward by Ogden and Richards, and illustrate the theory with an example.（分数：2.00）
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3.Figure out the conceptual metonymies in the following sentences and provide at least one more example.a. He drank the whole bottle.b. Arthur married money.c. Einstein was one of the most creative minds of the last century.d. Where are you parked?（分数：2.00）
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4.Explain the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.（分数：2.00）
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5.What does Saussure mean when he writes, "Signs function not through their intrinsic value but through their relative positions" ? Please illustrate your point with an example.（分数：2.00）
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6.The sentence The boy saw the man with the telescope is structurally ambiguous. Please explain the ambiguity and illustrate the different meanings with phrase structure trees.（分数：2.00）
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7.Figure out the structure of the following sentences and give a description of this phenomenon. The horse raced past the barn fell.The florist sent the flowers was pleased.The cotton clothing is made from grows in Mississippi.They told the boy that the girl met the story.（分数：2.00）
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8.State the various stages of Chomsky"s Transformational Grammar, and describe the theory"s philosophical/methodological features.（分数：2.00）
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9.Explain the(communicative)Principle of Relevance, and use it to explain why in a normal circumstance the sentence John went to the bank means that John went to a money-institution rather than that John went to the bank of a river.（分数：2.00）
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