(SaussureandChomskythinkrule>languagefact)
Traditionalgrammer&modernlinguistics
4.Whatislanguage?
Languageisasystemofarbitraryvocalsymbolsusedforhumancommunication
5.Designfeaturesoflanguage语言的识别特征CharlesHockett
①Arbitrariness(任意性)referstotheformsoflinguisticsignsbearnonaturalrelationshiptotheir
meaning.(soundsandmeanings)
②Productivity/creativity(能产性):
Languageisproductiveinthatitmakespossiblethe
constructionandinterpretationofnewsignalsbyitsusers
③Duality(双重性):
Thepropertyofhavingtwolevelsofstructures,suchthatunitsofthe
primarylevelarecomposedofelementsofthesecondarylevelandeachofthetwolevelshasits
ownprinciplesoforganization..
④Displacement(移位性):
HumanLanguagesenabletheiruserstosymbolizeobjects,eventsand
conceptswhicharenotpresent(intimeandspace)atmomentofcommunication.
⑤Culturaltransmission(文化传承性)人独有。
动物为基因传承
6.Functionsoflanguage
Mainfunction:
Descreptivefunction描述功能,expressivefunction表达功能,socialfunction社会功能
6basicfunction(RomanJakobson)
①addresser-Emotive(情感功能):
toexpressfeelingsandattitudesofthespeaker
②addressee-Conative(意动功能)
③Context-referential(指称功能)
④.message-poetic(诗性功能).
⑤contact-Phaticcommunion(寒暄交流)
⑥Metalingualfunction(元语言功能):
Halliday–childlanguage:
theideational概念功能,theinterpersonal交际功能,thetextual语篇功能
第二章Phology语音学
Threebranches:
articulatoryphonetics发音语言学,auditoryphonetics听觉语音学,acoustic
phonetics声学语音学。
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Organsofspeech:
pharyngealcavity咽腔:
voiced浊辅音,voiceless清辅音
oralcavity口腔,
nasalcavity鼻腔。
Broad&narrowtranscription
classificationofenglishspeechsound:
phonology音系学名词解释
Phonetics语音学isofgeneralnature;itisinterestedinallthespeechsoundsusedinallhuman
languages;itaimstoanswerquestionslike:
howtheyareproduced,howtheydifferfromeach
other,whatphoneticfeaturestheyhave,howtheycanbeclassified
Phonology音系学aimstodiscoverhowspeechsoundsinalanguageformpatterns,andhow
thesesoundsareusedtoconveymeaninginlinguisticcommunication.
Aphone音素----aphoneticunitorsegment.Thespeechsoundswehearandproduceduring
linguisticcommunicationareallphones.
Aphoneme音位----isaphonologicalunit;itisaunitofdistinctivevalue;anabstractunit,nota
particularsound,butitisrepresentedbyacertainphoneincertainphoneticcontext,e.g.the
phoneme/p/canberepresenteddifferentlyinpeakandspeak.
Allophones音位变体----thephonesthatcanrepresentaphonemeindifferentphonetic
environments.(complementarydistribution互补分布)
e.g.thephoneme[l]inEnglishcanberealizedasdark[l],clear[l],whichareallophonesofthe
phoneme[l].
Phonemiccontrast音位对立----twodifferentordistinctivephonemesareinphonemiccontrast,
e.g./b/and/p/in[bIt]and[pIt].
Complementarydistribution互补分布----allophonesofthesamephonemeareincomplementary
distribution.Theydonotdistinguishmeaning.Theyoccurindifferentphoneticcontexts,e.g.
dark[l]&clear[l],aspirated[p]&unaspirated[p].
Minimalpair最小对立体---whentwodifferentformsareidentical(thesame)ineveryway
exceptforonesoundsegmentwhichoccursinthesameplaceinthestrings,thetwosound
combinationsaresaidtoformaminimalpair,e.g.
Somerulesinphonelogy
Sequentialrules序列规则
Assimilationrule同化规则
Deletionrule省略规则
Suprasegmentalfeatures超音段特征
stress,tone,intonation
第三章Morphology(形态学):
refertothepartofthegrammarthatisconcernedwithformation
andwordstructure.
Closedclasswords:
conjunctions,prepositions,articlesandpronounsconsistofthe“grammatical”
or“functional”words.
Words---thesmallestfreeformfoundinlanguage.
Morpheme---thesmallestunitoflanguagethatcarriesinformationaboutmeaningorfunction.
Phoneme音位:
thesmallestmeaningfulunitofsound:
/p,b/
Morpheme词素:
thesmallestmeaningfulunitingrammar:
-s,a-,-lessun-
Freemorpheme自由词素----isonethatmayconstituteaword(freeform)byitself
Boundmorpheme黏着词素----isonethatmayappearwithatleastoneothermorpheme.Theycan
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notstandbythemselves
Allomorph词素变体---morphemesmayhavedifferentforms.(:
aandan.)Thevariantformsofa
morphemearesaidtobetheallomorphsofthemorpheme
Root---thecoreofthewordsthatcarriesthemajorcomponentsofmeaning.
Affix---boundmorphemes.
Prefix----morphemesthatoccuronlybeforeothers
Suffix----morphemesthatoccuronlyafterothers
Root---Arootisthatpartofthewordleftwhenalltheaffixes(inflectional&derivational)are
removed
Stem---Astemispartofaword-formwhichremainswhenallinflectionalaffixeshavebeen
removed,
Base---Abaseisanyformtowhichaffixesofanykindcanbeadded.Thismeansanystemand
rootcanbetermedasabase.
Derivationalmorphemes派生词素----themorphemeswhichcanchangethecategory,or
grammaticalclassofwords
Inflectionalmorphemes屈折词素----theboundmorphemeswhichareforthemostpartpurely
grammaticalmarkers,signifyingsuchconceptsastense,number,caseandsoon,(tables,talked,
John's)
morphologicalrules---thewayswordsareformed.
能产性词法规则productivemorphologicalrulesDerivation(派生法)---anaffixationprocessthatformsawordwithameaningand/orcategory
fromthatofitsbases.
Compounds(合成法)
第四章Syntax(句法)----
therulesthatgoverntheformationofsentences.
Category(范畴)---referstoagroupoflinguisticitemswhichfulfillthesameorsimilarfunctions
inaparticularlanguage
syntacticcategories---Afundamentalfactaboutwordsinhumanlanguagesisthattheycanbe
groupedintoarelativesmallnumber.Themostcentralcategoriestothesyntacticstudyarethe
word-levelcategories(traditionally,partsofspeech)
Majorlexicalcategories主要词法范畴:
n.,v.,adj.,Prep.
MinorLexicalcategories次要词法范畴:
det.(a,the,),deg.(修饰介词,形容词so,very),Qual.(修饰动词often,almost),Aux(must,should),Conj.(and,but,or)
Threecriteriaonwhichcategoriesaredetermined:
meaning,inflectionanddistribution.
Phrase---thesyntacticunitsthatarebuiltaroundacertainwordcategory.
Thestructureofphrases:
specifier标志语+head中心词+complement补语
Head----thewordaroundwhichaphraseisformed
Specifier----thewordsontheleftsideoftheheads
Complement----thewordsontherightsideoftheheads
Aphrasestructurerule短语结构规则----Thegrammaticalmechanismthatregulatesthe
arrangementofelementsthatmakeupaphrase
1)TheXPruleXP规则
(specifier)X(complement)
2)Coordinationrule并列规则---thestructuresthatareformedbyjoiningtwoormoreelements
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ofthesametypewiththehelpofaconjunction.
XP→(Spec)(Mod)X(Complement*)(Mod)Modifiers修饰语
S?
NPVP
Inflisanabstractcategoryinflection(dubbed‘Infl')astheirheads,whichindicatesthesentence's
tense(时态)andagreement(一致).(Infl.--will,Pst).
Auxiliarymovement(inversion)---Atransformation,aspecialtypeofrulethatcanmovean
elementfromonepositiontoanother,whichisknownasinversion倒置.
TheauxililarymovesfromtheheadInflpositioninInflPintotheheadCpositioninCP.Such
typeofinversionoperationinvolvingthemovementofawordfromtheheadpositioninone
phraseintotheheadpositioninanotherisknownasheadmovement中心词移位.
Doinsertion(do插入)----InsertinterrogativedointoanemptyInflposition.
第五章semantics语义学
Semantics----thestudyoflanguagemeaning.
Whatismeaning?
Meaningiscentraltothestudyofcommunication.
Someviews:
Namingtheory(Plato)
---Wordsarenamesorlabelsforthings.
Theconceptualistview(OgdenandRichards:
semantictriangle)
Thesymbolorformreferstothelinguisticelements(wordsandphrases);Thereferentreferstothe
objectintheworldofexperience;Thoughtorreferencereferstoconcept.
Contextualism(JRFirth)
1.Situationalcontext场景语境:
spatiotemporal时空的situation2.Linguisticcontext:
co-text互文,theprobabilityofaword'sco-occurrenceorcollocation.
Behaviorism(Bloomfield)
Lexicalmeaning:
名词解释
Sense----isconcernedwiththeinherentmeaningofthelinguisticform.Itisthecollectionofall
thefeaturesofthelinguisticform;itisabstractandde-contextualized.Itistheaspectofmeaning
dictionarycompilersareinterestedin.
Reference----whatalinguisticformreferstointhereal,physicalworld;itdealswiththe
relationshipbetweenthelinguisticelementandthenon-linguisticworldofexperience.
Majorsenserelations
1)Synonymy同义关系:
Dialectalsynonyms方言同义词,Stylisticsynonyms-文体同义词,differintheiremotiveorevaluativemeaning:
thesamemeaningbutdifferentemotions:
,
Collocationalsynonyms搭配同义词,Semanticallydifferentsynonyms,语义程度不同
2)Polysemy一词多义
3)Homonymy同形同音异义关系
4)Hyponymy上下位关系
等级反义词,old-young:
GradableantonymsComplementary
义关系)5Antonymy反互补反义词,关系反义词wife-husbandmale-femaleantonymsRelationalopposites
Senserelationsbetweensentences
同义1)XissynonymouswithY不一致XisinconsistentwithY2)
蕴含XentailsY3)
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预设4)XpresupposesY
矛盾5)Xisacontradiction语义反常6)Xissemanticallyanomalous
Analysisofmeaning
Componential