[单项选择]Syntax is the study of ______.


A. language functions
B. sentence structures
C. textual organization
D. word formation

[单项选择]In the study of functional syntax, Halliday defines his ______ as "tile one to whom or for whom the process is said to take place", which is also called Recipient in material processes, Client in verbal processes or Receiver in relational processes.
A. range
B. circumstances
C. beneficiary
D. token

[单项选择]What distinguishes morphology from syntax deals with the rules governing the combination of


A. words into phrases and sentences.
B. sounds into patterns and words.
C. meanings into passages and system.
D. words into branches and language.

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The study of social science is more than the study of the individual social sciences. Although it is true that to be a good social scientist you must know each of those components, you must also know how they interrelate. By specializing too early, many social scientists can lose sight of the interrelationships that are so essential to understanding modern problems. That’s why it is necessary to have a course coveting all the social sciences. In fact, it would not surprise me if one day a news story such as the one above should appear.
The preceding passage placed you in the future. To understand how and when social science broke up, you must go into the past. Imagine for a moment that you’re a student in 1062, in the Italian city of Bologna, site of one of the first major universities in the Western world. The university has no buildings. It consists merely of a few professors and students. There is no tuition fee. At the end of a professor’s lecture, i
A. Socrates can be regarded as the first social scientist in the Western world.
B. The universities in Italy have no buildings.
C. Socrates created the "Socratic method".
D. Greece is not as civilized as Italy.

[单项选择]Both syntax and semantics are the branches of linguistics. The former studies the rules governing the combination of words into sentences, the latter


A. the form of words.
B. the meaning of language.
C. the sound patterns of language.
D. the change of language.

[单项选择]Syntax is about the principle of forming correct______.


A. morphology
B. sentences
C. lexemes
D. discourses

[单项选择]A historical study of language is a study of ______ language.


A. synchronic
B. diachronic
C. prescriptive
D. comparative