语言学选择题_(8)

语言学选择题。

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7. A. Old English period B. Middle English period C. Modern English period D. Middle ages The most widely-spread morphological changes in the historical development of English are the loss and addition of ________. A. prefixes B. suffixes C. affixes D. case markings The most dramatic morphological loss concerns the loss of ________. A. gender markings B. case markings C. tense markings D. both A and B The most vigorous and on-going change in the historical development of a language is the change in its ________. A. sound B. vocabulary C. morphological system D. syntax The most obvious way in which Modern English differs lexically from Old English is in the number of borrowed words from other languages, particular from ________. A. Latin B. French C. Greek D. German Chinese, the most popular language of the world, belongs to the ________ family.

A. Indo-European印欧语系

B. Sino-Tibetan . 汉藏语系

C. Austronesian南太平洋群岛的

D. Afroasiatic非亚语系

Chapter 8 Language and Society

1. The goal of ________ is to explore the nature of language variation and language use among a variety of speech communities and different social situations.

A. psycholinguistics

B. sociolinguistics

C. historical linguistics

D. general linguistics

2. The situation in which two or more languages are used side by side is referred to as ________.

A. diglossia