2017 年硕士研究生招生考试试题 (A 卷) 科目代码及名称: 820 英语语言学 适用专业:英语语言文学 01、03 方向考生 I. Define the following terms. (30 points) 1. exocentric; 2. phonology; 3. root; 4. converse antonymy; 5. Nida’s classification of culture; 6. constative II. Analyses. (30 points) 1. Use tree diagrams in IC analysis to clarify the given constructions. (15 points) (1) beautiful cities and villages (2) Chinese geography teachers (3) The boy was crying. 2. Describe the following sound segments. (15 points) (1) /d/; (2) /n/; (3) /θ/; (4) /ʌ /; (5) /æ/; (6) /ә:/ III. Answer the given questions below. (40 points) 1. What are some important contributions that sociolinguistics has made to linguistic studies? (10 points) 2. Do you think there are true synonyms in English? Why (not)? (10 points) 3. In what way do we say Chinese is a tone language? (10 points) 4. What is the distinction between inflectional affixes and derivational affixes? (10 points) IV. Write a short essay in about 500 words on the given topic. (50 points) What is your understanding of the relationship between language and literature? 第 1 页,共 1 页