Simone英汉对比语言学期末(汇总)
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英汉对比语言学
Unit one:
Linguistic typologyis a subfield of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural and functional features. Its aim is to describe and explain the common properties and the structural diversity of the world's languages.
Contrastivelinguisticsisabranchoflinguisticswhichstudiestwoormorelanguageswiththeaimsofdiscoveringtheirdifferencesandsimilarities(especiallytheformer)andapplyingthesefindingstorelatedareasofstudy.A languageis a system of human communication which consists of units like morphemes, words, sentences, and utterances. It is a system of symbols which combine sounds and meanings together.
language and thinking
The Features of Language
1) reflexivity (自反性）
2) arbitrariness（任意性）
3) duality（双重性）
4) displacement（异时异地性）
5) productivity（能产性）
6) cultural transmission（文化传递性）
The relationship between speech sounds and the meanings they represent in the languages of the world is, for the most part,arbitrary. There is no inherent relation between the two.
Grammatical characteristics of the Chinese languag
