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1、语言学精品文档Chapter7：HistoricalLinguistics I. DecidewhethereachofthefollowingstatementsisTrueorFalse:1. Oneofthetasksofthehistoricallinguistsistoexploremethodstoreconstructlinguistichistoryandestablishtherelationshipbetweenlanguages.2. Languagechangeisagradu

2、alandconstantprocess,thereforeoftenindiscernibletospeakersofthesamegeneration.3. ThehistoryoftheEnglishlanguageisdividedintotheperiodsofOldEnglish,MiddleEnglishandModernEnglish.4. MiddleEnglishbeganwiththearrivalofAnglo-Saxons,whoinvadedtheBritishIslesf

3、romnorthernEurope.5. InOldEnglish,allthenounsareinflectedtomarknominative,genitive,dativeandaccusativecases.6. InOldEnglish,theverbofasentenceoftenprecedesthesubjectratherthanfollowsit.7. AdirectconsequenceoftheRenaissanceMovementwastherevivalofFrenchas

4、aliterarylanguage.8. Ingeneral,linguisticchangeingrammarismorenoticeablethanthatinthesoundsystemandthevocabularyofalanguage.9. Thesoundchangesincludechangesinvowelsounds,andintheloss,gainandmovementofsounds.10.   Theleastwidely-spreadmorphologicalchange

5、sinthehistoricaldevelopmentofEnglisharethelossandadditionofaffixes.11.   InOldEnglish,themorphosyntacticruleofadjectiveagreementstipulatedthattheendingsofadjectivemustagreewiththeheadnounincase,numberandgender.12.   ThewordorderofModernEnglishismorevari

6、ablethanthatofOldEnglish.13.   Derivationreferstotheprocessbywhichnewwordsareformedbytheadditionofaffixestotheroots,stems,orwords.14.   “Smog”isawordformedbytheword-formingprocesscalledacronymy.15.   “fridge”isawordformedbyabbreviation.收集于网络，如有侵权请联系管理员删

7、除精品文档16.   Modernlinguistsareabletoprovideaconsistentaccountfortheexactcausesofalltypesoflanguagechange.17.   Soundassimilationmaybringaboutthelossofoneoftwophoneticallysimilarsyllablesinsequence,asinthecaseofchangeof“Engla-land”to“England”.18.   Ruleel

8、aborationoccurswhenthereisaneedtoreduceambiguityandincreasecommunicativeclarityorexpressiveness.19.   Languagechangeisalwaysachangetowardsthesimplificationoflanguagerules20.   Thewaychildrenacquirethelanguageisoneofthecausesforla