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2016年温州大学外国语学院820英语语言学考研真题
（请考生在答题纸上答题，在此试题纸上答题无效）
I. Define the following terms. (50 points)
1.I-narrator;
2. locutionaryact;
3. Sapir-WhorfHypothesis;
4.reference;
5. relationalopposites;
6. exocentricconstruction;
7.back-formation;
8.blending;
9.phonology;
10.competence
II. Answer the two given questions. (30 points)
1. Do you agreewith the view that no language is especially simple?
2. How doeslanguage relate to culture?
III. Analyses. (20 points)
1. Write out the different meanings of the following twoambiguous constructions. (10 points)
(1) The chickenis too hot to eat.
(2) Visitingrelatives can be boring.
2. Do the componential analysis on the lexical meanings ofthe given words below. (10 points)
(1) raise;
(2) wife
IV. Write a short essay in about 500 words on either of the twotopics below. (50 points)
1. In cognitivelinguistics, metaphor is not a figure of speech merely, it is conceptual. Inwhat sense is metaphor said to be conceptual?
2. Give acomment on Noam Chomsky’s Innateness Hypothesis.