现代语言学笔记
Chapter 1 introduction
1，Linguistic is the scientific study of language.
2，Data and theory stand in the dialectical complementation.
3，The process of linguistic study
Studying the linguistic facts →
putting forward hypothesis→testing
them→propose the linguistic theory. 4，the scope of linguistics
Phonetics: the study of sounds of
language
Phonology: the study of how the
sounds are formed and conveyed
meanings in linguistic
communication.
Morphology: the study of the
linguistic symbols even the smallest
components called morphemes.
Syntax: the study of how the words
are formed to permissible sentences.
Semantics: the ultimate purpose is to convey meaning, so the study of meaning is called semantics. Pragmatics: the language occurs at a certain time and place, also in the context of language, it is called pragmatics.
Sociolinguistics: language is a social activity; society and language are closely connected, so the study of the relation of them is called sociolinguistics.
Applied linguistics: the language also can be applied to the solution of practical problems. Psycholinguistics: the language is affected by the ideas and thoughts of people and it studies how we as infants acquire our mother tongue.
*the emergence of a new teaching approach or method often follows the emergence of a new linguistic theory.
Prescriptive: the rules that tell people
what they should say and what
should not say
Descriptive: analyze and describe
language people actual use.
Synchronic: the study of language at
some point of time.
Diachronic: the study of historical
language development through
changes of time.
Speech and writing
People now are giving priority to
speech. Why?
①speech precedes writing
②some nations only have the spoken
form
③speech could can be used for the
wider range of purpose
④speech could stand a larger load
in 。
Langue and parole
Langue：the high abstract system shared by
all members of a speech community，it is stable .
Parole：the actualization of langue，it is not so stable as langue and also concrete。Competence: the ideal language user’s knowledge of the rules of his or her language.
Performance: the actualization of the ideal user’s knowledge of the rules of language.
What is language?
Language is a system of arbitrariness of vocal symbols for human communication. The design features of language
①Arbitrariness: the connection between
sounds and meanings is not logical
and not absolute arbitrary, different
sounds in different countries can have
the same meaning.
②Productivity: it makes possible to
explain the new symbols and
expressions
③Duality: language has two levels including the lower level that contains sounds, which are meaningless.
④Desplacement: it refers to the contexts that can be removed from the immediate situation for the speakers.
⑤Cultural –transmission: humanbeings were born to have the abilities to acquire language, but the more detailed language must be learned and taught.
Chapter 2 phonology
1the phonic media of language: speech and writing.
Modern: speech
Trodational: writing
Phonetics；the study of the phonetic media
①Articulatory :
②Acoustic
③Auditory
The organs of speech
①pharyngeal cavity
②oral cavity
③nasal cavity
The orthographic representation of speech sounds –broad and narrow transcription
broad transcription：this is transcription used in dictionaries and textbooks and just with the letter symbols
narrow transcription：this is transcription used by the phoneticians and with the letter symbols and diacritic
*The vowels and consonants Phonetics and phonology
①the study on how the sounds are put together
②the study on how the sounds are formed and conveyed meanings
phone：it is defined as the speech sounds when
we use language
phoneme: the basic unit of phonology ，a collection of speech sounds
Allophone: it can represent a phoneme in different language environment.
Phonemic contrast: they are distinctive phonemes or they do not form a different meaning as the same phoneme.
Complementary distribution: the same phoneme in different environments. Minimal pair: they are different in every aspect expect the segmental ones.
Some rules of phonology Sequential rules: the combination of sounds is rule-governed Assimilation rules: assimilate one sound to another sound, take nasalization for instance
Deletion rules: some deletion of the
phones of vowels or consonants Suprasegamental features: the properties of phonology such as the syllable, words, sentences.there are three features: tone, stress, intonation
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Chapter 3 Morphology Definition: a branch of grammar that studies the structure of words and rules of words.
The categories of morphology:
①inflectional morphology
②derivational morphology（lexical morphology）
morphemes：free morphemes
Bound morphemes Morphemes: the smallest meaningful unit of language
①free morphemes: one kind of
morphemes that can be used independently and freely
②Bound morphemes: one kind of
morphemes that must be combined with other morphemes.
Roots must be combined with other roots or affixes→inflectional affixes: one of the affixes that indicates the grammar of the words, including tense, degree and numbers. Derivational affixes: a kind of word-formation that adds the affixes to the existing forms.
Derivational affixes: prefixes: change the meaning of words without changing the part of speech of words 2suffixes: change the part of speech of words without changing meaning of the word
Compounding
The features of compounding
①Orthographically, it can be written as one word or two separate words with or without hyphens
②semantically, the meaning of it is not the sum meanings of all the elements
③syntactically, the part of speech is always determined by the second element
④Phonetically,the stress of the compound always falls on the first element.
Chapter 4
Syntax: it is a subfield of the linguistics that studies the sentence structure.
Syntax as a system of rules Linguistic competence: the linguistic knowledge of the language speakers
2.1 The basic components of a sentence
Subject predict
2.2 types of sentences
Simple sentence: the clause that
contains the subject and predict. Coordinate or compound sentence Complicate sentence: a complex sentence contains two or more clauses and one sentence is incorporated into another.
A embedded clause从句
B matrix clause主句
2.3 The linear and hierarchical structures of sentences
A the linear structure
It refers to the sequential rules of word
B the hierarchical structure
The sentence structure that groups words into structure constituents and show the syntactic categories→it refers to the lexical or phrasal category
Lexical category
A the major lexical category (noun, adj, adv, v)
B the minor lexical category (preposition, auxiliary, determiner, pronoun, conjunction, interjection) Grammatical relations
It studies the distinction between logical and structural relation of constituents.
Combinational rules→phrase structural rules→“rewrite rules” which allows for the possible combination of words to form the sentences and phrases.
The recursiveness of phrase structure rules
The rules that refer to one sentence can generate infinite sentences with infinite length.
X-bar theory
The theory refers to reduce the redundancy of the phrase structure and the properties that shared by the phrases.
6 syntactic movement and movement rules
Syntactic movement is called “transformational movement” which changes the syntactic representation of the sentences.
D-structure→S-structure
Move-α—a general movement rule
If a constituent can move to any place.
Universal grammar
It is a system of linguistics and a human specific gift that exists in minds and brain and normal human beings.
Chapter 5 semantics
The definition of semantics: the ultimate purpose is to convey meaning in the linguistic communication, so it is the study of meaning.
The theory on semantics
A the naming theory ,which is put
forward by the Plato ,refers to the linguistic symbols and forms represents things exist in the world.
B the conceptualist view
There’s no direct link between a linguistic form and what it refers to. They are linked by the mediation of concept of humans.
C conceptualism: one can derive or reduce the meaning to the observable words.
C behaviorism the situation in which the speaker utters it and calls forth the behavior of the listeners. Lexical meaning ；word meaning & sentence meaning.
Sense: the abstract and inherent and de-contextualized meaning. Reference；a linguistic form exists in the physical world, it studies the relation between the linguistic world and non-linguistic world.
Major sense relations
Synonymy: it refers to the sameness and similarities of the words.
A complete synonyms →the words that can be substituted each other and rarely occur.
B dialectical synonyms: synonyms used in different regional dialects.
C Stylistic synonyms: they differ in style.
D synonyms that differ in emotive and evaluated meaning
E collective synonyms
They are collective with different prepositions.
Polysemy
Different words happen to share the same meaning and, a word can have more than one meaning.
Homonymy
Homonymy means words that have different meaning can have the same
forms and the same sounds.
Words that only have the same forms are called homographs.
Words that only have the same sounds are called homophones.
Hyponym
It refers to the relation among more general, more inclusive, more specific words.
1co-hyponyms
2superordinate
3hyponyms
Antonym
1gradable antonyms
-----warm, cold
2compenmentary antonyms
Dead-alive
Boy-girl
Man-woman
3relational antonyms
Husband-wife
Teacher-student
四sense relations between sentences
①A is synonymous with B
②A is inconsistent with B
③A entails B 包含
④A presupposes B
Componential analysis
The meaning of word can also be divided into the unit of meaning. Predication analysis
①the meaning is not the sum total of meanings of the components
②grammatical meaning :the combination of meaning is governed by the grammatical rules ③semantic meaning: the meaning of words and sentences in the context Chapter 6 pragmatics
The definition: how speakers of a language use sentences to effect successful communication. Pragmatics VS semantics
What essentially distinguish the
pragmatics and semantics is whether in the study of context meaning. Context: it is generally constituent by the knowledge shared by the speakers and hearers.
Sentence meaning VS utterance meaning
A Sentence meaning is often studied as the abstract, intrinsic meaning
B Utterance meaning occurs when people often utters the meaning of the words and expressions
Speech act theory
Constatives: the statement that can either state or describe and is verifiable
Performatives: the statement that can not either state or describe and is not verifiable.
1 locutionary act: it is the act of conveying the literal meaning of the speakers
2 illocutionary act: it is the act of representation of the ideas and expressions of the speakers
3 perlocutionary act: it is the act of representation of the consequences and the changes that the speakers cause
Five types that we do with the language
①representatives：stating or
describing the facts that the speakers firmly believe
②Directives: trying to get the
hearers to do something.
③expressive: expressing the
attitudes towards action
④comissives: committing the
speaker itself to some future state
⑤decarations:bring about immediate changes
by saying something
Principles of conversation
1 the maximum of quantity (say what’s required not over what’s required)
2the maximum of quality (not be false and lack evidence)
3the maximum of relation (be related to what you are saying)
4the maximum of manner (avoid the obscurity and ambiguity; be polite and orderly)
Chapter 7 historical linguistics Historical linguistics is the subfield of linguistics that studies the language change. it is concerned with the historical development of languages The nature of the language change Universal, continuous, regular, systematic Three periods of English development
①old English(the Anglo-Saxons)
②middle English(Norman conquest →French)
③modern English（Greek &Latin）Linguistic change of English
①sound change
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【语言学名著选读】 课型/编号专业选修课/161007251 学时/学分 36/2 课程简介 语言学名著选读是汉语国际教育专业 和汉语言文字学专业的专业必修课。语言学名著选读课属于语言学范畴，主要向学生介绍古今中外在语言学史上有重大贡献的书籍。 教学目的 开设语言学名著选读课，主要目的不光是让学生认识阅读这些名著，更重要的是对语言学的发展脉络有清楚的认识，从而拓宽学生的思路，对于今后的语言学研究有很大帮助。 教学内容 分为两大部分，汉语语言学名著和西方语言学名著。汉语语言学名著包括：《马氏文通》、《中国文法要略》、《新著国语文法》、《现代汉语》、《语法讲义》、《语法答问》等；西方语言学名著包括：《论人类语言结构的差异及对人类精神发展的影响》、《普通语言学教程》、《语言论》、《句法结构》、《现代语言学教程》等。通过泛读这些经典语言学名著，让学生对语言学有整体上的把握，为今后的语言学研究打下基础。 教学方式 课上以教师授课为主，辅以课堂讨论，课后学生阅读名著，做研究报告等形式。 考核方式 论文或考试节课。成绩比例为平时成绩和期中成绩占40%，期末考试成绩占60%。 使用教材 自编讲义。 参考书目 1.马建忠：《马氏文通》，商务印书馆，1983。 2.吕叔湘：《中国文法要略》，商务印书馆，1956。 3.黎锦熙：《新著国语文法》，湖南教育出版社，2007。 4.王力：《中国现代语法》，商务印书馆，1985。 5.朱德熙：《语法讲义》，商务印书馆，2003。 6.朱德熙：《语法答问》，商务印书馆，1985。 7.[瑞士]索绪尔：《普通语言学教程》，商务印书馆，1980。 8.[德]威廉·冯·洪堡特：《论人类语言结构的差异及其对人类精神发展的影响》，商务印书馆，1999。 9.[美]爱德华·萨丕尔：《语言论》，商务印书馆，1985。 10.[美]布隆菲尔德：《语言论》，商务印书馆，1998。 11.[美]乔姆斯基：《句法结构》，中国社会科学出版社，1984。 12.[美]霍凯特：《现代语言学教程》，北京大学出版社，2003。
现代语言学 一绪论 1. Linguistics: Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language 2 Phonetics: The study of sounds which are used in linguistics communication is called phonetics. For example, vowels and consonants. 3 Phonology: The study of how sounds are put together and used in communication is called phonology.For example,phone,phoneme,and allophone. 4 Morphology :The study of the way in which morphemes are arranged to form words is called morphology.For example,boy and “ish”---boyish,teach---teacher. 5 Syntax : The study of how morphemes and words are combined to form sentences is called syntax.For esample,”John like linguistics.” 6 Semantics: The study of meaning in language is called semantics. For example,:The seal could not be found.The zoo keeper became worried.” The seal could not be found,The king became worried.” Here the word seal means different things. 7 Pragmatics: The study of meaning in context of use is called pragmatics.For example, “I do” The word do means different context. 8 Sociolinguistics: The study of language with reference to society is called sociolinguistics.For example,regional dialects,social variation in language. 9Psycholinguistics: The study of language with reference to workings of mind is called psycholinguistics. 二音系学 1 Phonetics: The study of sounds that are used in linguistic communication is called phonetics. 2 Phonology: The study of how sounds are put together and used in communication is called phonology. 3 Phone: Phone can be simply defined as the speech sounds we use when speaking a language. A phone is a phonetic unit or segement. It does not necessarily distinguish meaning; some do,some don’t. 4 Phoneme: Phonology is concerned with the speech sounds which distinguish meaning. The basic unit in phonology is called phoneme;it is a unit that is of distinctive value. 5 allophone: The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environment are called the allophones of that phoneme. 6 Complementary distribution: These two allophones of the same phoneme are said to be in complementary distribution. 7 Minimal pair: When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segement which occurs in the same place in the stings, the two words are said to form a minimal pair. 8 Stress: When a certain syllable of a word is stressed, it means that the syllable is prounced with great force than the other or others. 9 tones: Tones are pitch variation, which are caused by the different rates of vibration of the vocal cords. Pitch variations can distinguish meaning just like phoneme; therefore, the tone is a suprasegemental feature. 10 intonation: When pitch, stress and sound length are tied to the sentence rather than the word in isolation, they are collectively known as intonation. Intonation plays an important role in conveying meaning in almost every language,especially in a language like English{$isbest} 三形态学 1 morphology: Morphology is a branch of grammer which studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed. 2 inflectional morphology: Inflectional morphology studies the inflections of word-formation.
中国语言学必读必备书目400种 北京大学语言学院推荐 （英）The Categories(范畴)：亚里士多德 （英）THE DEVIL’S DICTIONARY(魔鬼词典)-- AMBROSE BIERCE(阿姆布诺斯·比尔斯) （英）The Foolish Dictionary(愚蠢的词典)-- Gideon Wurdz(吉顿·伍兹) （英）表述和意义：言语行为研究[美]塞尔[Searle,J.R.] （英）词汇、语义学和语言教育[英]哈切（Hatch,E （英）从语言学的角度看语言习得 （英）当代句法理论通览 （英）当代语义理论指南--[美]拉宾（Lappin,S.）著 （英）德里达--诺利斯 （英）汉语方言的连续变化变调模式--陈渊泉 （英）话语分析入门：理论与方法[美]吉（Gee,J.P.）著 （英）会说话的哺乳动物：心理语言学入门 （英）剑桥语言百科词典 （英）交际语言教学论 （英）句法：结构、意义与功能 （英）跨文化交际：语篇分析法[美]斯科隆（Scbllon,R.）等著 （英）历史语言学 （英）普通语言学教程--索绪尔 （英）乔姆司基的普通语言学教程 （英）人类语言学入门 （英）认知语言学入门 （英）社会语言学教程 （英）言语的萌发：语言的起源和进化 （英）言语行为：语言哲学论[美]塞尔（Searle,J.R.）著 （英）应用语言学研究方法与论文写作 （英）英诗学习指南：语言学的分析方法[英]利奇（Leech,G.N.）著 （英）语法化学说 （英）语料库语言学 （英）语料库语言学入门[新]肯尼迪（Kennedy,G.）著 （英）语言和人 （英）语言类型学与普通语法特征--Croft （英）语言论：言语研究导论--Sapir （英）语言迁移：语言学习的语际影响[美]奥德林（Odlin，T.）著 （英）语言心理学[美]卡罗尔（Carroll,D.W.）著 （英）语言学和第二语言习得 （英）语言学教程--Radford （英）语言学课题：语言研究实用指南 （英）语言学理论：对基要原著的语篇研究 （英）语言学入门[英]普尔（Poole,S.C.）著 （英）语言学习和语言使用中的错误：错误分析探讨
3.What are the branches of linguistics? What does each of them study? (语言学的主要分支是什么。每个分支的研究对象是什么？) Linguistics mainly involves the following branches: 1)General linguistics, which is the study of language as a whole and which deals with the basic concepts, theories, descriptions, models and methods applicable in any linguistic study 2)Phonetics, which studies the sounds that are used in linguistic communication 3)Phonology, which studies how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning in communication 4)Morphology, which studies the way in which morphemes are arranged to form words 5)Syntax, which studies how morphemes and words are combined to form sentences 6)Semantics, which is the study of meaning in language. 7)Pragmatics, which is the study of meaning not in isolation, but in the context of use 8)Sociolinguistics, which is the study of language with reference to society 9)Psycholinguistics, which is the study of language with reference to the workings of mind. 10)Applied linguistics, which is concerned about the application of linguistic findings in linguistic studies; in a narrow sense, applied linguistics refers to the application of linguistic principles and theories to language teaching, especially the teaching of foreign and second languages. 11)Other related branches are anthropological linguistics(人类语言学), neurological linguistics（神经语言学）, mathematical linguistics （数学语言学）, and computational linguistics（计算机语言学）. 4.What makes modern linguistics different from traditional grammar? (现代语言学与传统语法有什么区别？) Traditional grammar is prescriptive（规定性）; it is based on "high "(religious, literary) written language. It sets models for language users to follow. But Modern linguistics is descriptive（描述性）; its investigations are based on authentic and mainly spoken language data. It is supposed to be scientific and objective and the task of linguists is supposed to describe the language people actually use, whether it is "correct" or not. 5.Is modern linguistics mainly synchronic（共时性）or diachronic（历时性）? Why? (The description of language at some point in time is a synchronic study; the description of a language as it changes through time is a diachronic study.) Modern linguistics is mainly synchronic, focusing on the present-day language. Unless the various states of a language are successfully studied, it will not be possible to describe language from a diachronic point of view. 6.Which enjoys priority in modern linguistics, speech or writing? Why?在现代语言学里说话或写作哪一个有优先权？为什 么呢？ Modern linguistics gives priority to the spoken language for the following reasons: First, speech precedes writing. The writing system is always a later invention used to record the speech. There are still some languages that only have the spoken form. Then, a larger amount of communication is carried out in speech than in writing. Third, speech is the form in which infants acquire their native language. 7.Saussure 是如何区分语言langue和言语parole的？ (The distinction between langue and parole was made by the famous Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure early this century. Langue and parole are French words.) Langue refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community, and parole refers to the realization of langue in actual use. Langue is the set of conventions and rules which language users all have to follow while parole is the concrete use of the conventions and the application of the rules. Langue is abstract; it is not the language people actually use, but parole is concrete; it refers to the naturally occurring language events. Langue is relatively stable, it does not change frequently; while parole varies from person to person, and from situation to situation. 8.Chomsky的语言能力competence和语言使用performance各指什么？ (American linguist N. Chomsky in the late 1950’s proposed the distinction between competence and performance.) Chomsky defines competence as the ideal user’s knowledge of the rules of his language. This internalized set of rules enables the language user to produce and understand an infinitely large number of sentences and recognize sentences that are ungrammatical and ambiguous. According to Chomsky, performance is the actual realization of this knowledge in linguistic communication. Although the speaker’s knowledge of his mother tongue is perfect, his performances may have mistakes because of social and psychological factors such as stress, embarrassment, etc… Chomsky believes that what linguists should study is the competence, which is systematic, not the performance, which is too haphazard (偶然的). 9.How is Saussure’s distinction between langue and parole similar to Chomsky’s distinction between competence and performance? And what is their difference?索绪尔是如何区分语言和言语类似乔姆斯基的区分能力和表现？和它们的区别是什么？ Both Saussure and Chomsky make the distinction between the abstract language system and the actual use of language. Their purpose is to single out one aspect of language for serious study. They differ in that Saussure takes a sociological view of language and his notion of langue is a matter of social conventions, and Chomsky looks at language from a psychological point of view and to him competence is a property of the mind of each individual. 10.What characteristics of language do you think should be included in a good, comprehensive definition of language?你认为应该怎样用一个良好的，全面的定义来总结语言的特征？Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication. First of all, language is a system, i.e. elements of language are combined according to rules. Second, language is arbitrary in the sense that there is no intrinsic connection between the word and the thing it refers to. Third, language is vocal because the primary medium is sound for all languages. The term “human” is meant to specify that language is human-specific. 11.What features of human language have been specified by Charles Hockett to show that it is essentially different from any animal communication system? 人类语言的甄别性特征是什么？ 1.Arbitrariness（任意性）: (课本答案：a sign of sophistication only humans are capable of) It means that there is no logical connection between meanings and sounds. Although language is arbitrary by nature, it is not entirely arbitrary. Non-arbitrary words make up only a small percentage of the total number. The arbitrary nature of language is a sign of sophistication and it makes it possible for language to have an unlimited source of expressions. 2.Productivity（创造性）: （课本答案：creativity: animals are quite limited in the messages they are able to send）Language is productive or creative in that it makes possible the con?struction and interpretation of an infinitely large number of sentences, including those they have never said or heard before. 3.Duality（二重性）: （课本答案：a feature totally lacking in any animal communication）It means that language is a system, which consists of two sets of structure, or two levels, one of sounds at the lower level and the other of meanings at the higher level. At the lower or the basic level, there is the structure of individual and meaningless sounds, which can be grouped into meaningful units at the higher level. This duality of structure or dou?ble articulation of language enables its users to talk about anything within their knowledge. 4.Displacement（移位性）: （课本答案：no animal can “talk” about things removed from the immediate situation）Language can be used to refer to things which are present or not present, real or imagined matters in the past, present, or future, or far-away places. In other words, language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker.
现代语言学名词解释 现代语言学 一绪论 1 Linguisitics :Linguistics is generally defined as the scientic study of language 2 Phonetics : The study of sounds which are used in linguistics communication is called phonetics.For example,vowels and consonants 3 Phonology” : T he study of how sounds are put together and used in communication is called phonology.For example,phone,phoneme,and allophone. 4 Morphology :The study of the way in which morphemes are arranged to form words is called morphology.For example,boy and “ish”---boyish,teach---teacher. 5 Syntax : The study of how morphemes and words are combined to form sentences is called syntax.For esample,”John like linguistics.” 6 Semantics: The study of meaning in language is called semantics. For example,:The seal could not be found.The zoo keeper became worried.” The seal could not be found,The king became worried.” Here the word seal means different things. 7 Pragmatics: The study of meaning in context of use is called pragmatics.For example, “I do” The word do means d ifferent context. 8 Sociolinguistics: The study of language with reference to society is called sociolinguistics.For example,regional dialects,social variation in language. 9Psycholinguistics: The study of language with reference to workings of mind is called psycholinguistics. 二音系学 1 Phonetics: The study of sounds that are used in linguistic communication is called phonetics. 2 Phonology: The study of how sounds are put together and used in communication is called phonology. 3 Phone: Phone can be simply defined as the speech sounds we use when speaking a language. A phone is a phonetic unit or segement. It does not necessarily distinguish meaning; some do,some don’t. 4 Phoneme: Phonology is concerned with the speech sounds which distinguish meaning. The basic unit in phonology is called phoneme;it is a unit that is of distinctive value. 5 allophone: The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environment are called the allophones of that phoneme. 6 Complementary distribution: These two allophones of the same phoneme are
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