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[简答题]How do you account for the role of native words in English in relation to loan-words
[单项选择]Marissa speaks Spanish （）native speakers
A. as well as
B. better
C. the best
[单项选择] Most words are "lexical words", i.e. nouns signifying "things", the majority of which are abstract concepts rather than physical objects in the world; only "proper nouns" have specific and unique referents in the everyday world. The communicative function of a fully-functioning language requires the scope of reference beyond the particularity of the individual instance. While each leaf, cloud or smile is different from all others, effective communication requires general categories or "universals". Anyone who has attempetd to communicate with people who do not share their language will be familiar with the limitations of simply pointing to things, given that the vast majority of lexical words in a language exist on a high level of abstraction and refer to classes of things such as "buildings" or to concepts like "construction".
We lose any one-to-one correspondence of word and thing the moment we group instances into classes. Other than lexical words, language consists of "functio
A. Words can be categorized into different grammatical functions.
B. Some relationship between signifier and signified can be articulated.
C. Every signifier points to a single pre-existing signified.
D. Words may name imaginary, non-physical things.
E. The use of categories is essential to the operation of language.
