[单项选择]The syntactic rules of any language are ______ in number.
A. large
B. small
C. finite
D. infinite

[填空题]The application of syntactic movement rules t______ a sentence from the level of D-structure to that of S-structure.

[单项选择]Syntactic movement is dictated by rules traditionally called ______.
A. phase structure rules
B. syntactic rules
C. lexical rules
D. transformational rules

[填空题]For any natural language, a set of s______ rules are capable of yielding an endless number of sentences in that language.

[填空题]"Language operates by rules" is a fundamental view about language.（）

[单项选择]Human language can cope with any subject whatever, and it does not matter how far away the topic of conversation is in time and space. Which design feature of language does this phenomenon refer to
A. Productivity.
B. Cultural transmission.
C. Displacement.
D. Arbitrariness.

[单项选择]Syntactic change includes all the following EXCEPT （　）.
A. rule loss
B. affix loss
C. rule addition
D. rule change

[单项选择]Syntactic categories contain all the following types EXCEPT
A. meanings that words express.
B. linguistic items the words use.
C. affixes that words take.
D. structures in which the words can occur.

[单项选择]VP, AP and PP share similar syntactic properties with NP in that they allow for ______ and complements in phrases.
A. heads
B. specifiers
C. lexical items
D. obligatory words

[多项选择]
Emotion display rules are the unwritten and often unformulated "rules" guiding the show of emotion in different cultures. They help determine which emotion can be shown in what way by whom and in what situation. Research has shown that not only deliberate but even spontaneous shows of emotion follow rules that vary with culture. Often, what emotion may be displayed and in what way change depending on the agent’s age, gender, social status etc. One presently unpopular corollary to the existence of such rules is the implication that cultural stereotypes may, indeed, have a basis in fact.
Question Explain how the example of the professor’s four-year-old daughter demonstrates the concept of emotion display rules in the reading passage.
Now hear a talk on the same subject.

[单项选择]The syntactic component provides the ______ for a sentence.
A. structure
B. meaning
C. lexicon
D. rule

[名词解释]language universals

[判断题]Formal language and informal language are different in many ways.

[填空题]

Language Change

The phenomenon of language change probably attracts more public notice and more (1) (disapprove) than any other linguistic issue. There is a widely held belief that change must mean (2) (deteriorate) and decay. Older people observe the casual speech of the young and conclude that standards have fallen appreciably. It is understandable that many people dislike change, but it is (3) (wise) to condemn all linguistic (4) (modify). It is often felt that contemporary language illustrates the problem at its worst, but this belief is shared by every generation.
There are indeed cases where linguistic change can lead to problems of unintelligibility and (5) (ambiguous), and if change is too rapid there can be major communication problems. But as a rule, the parts of language which ale undergoing change at any given time are (6) (relative) small in comparison