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A List of Terms of Linguistics for General Revision -------By A The father of modern linguistics: Ferdinand de Saussure Systemic-functional grammar: M.A.K. Halliday （选择题可能考到语言学家相关知识，要稍作了解哈） Design features of language: arbitrariness: the forms of linguistic signs bear no natural relationship to their meaning. (That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.-----William Shakespeare) symbolicity: language contains a lot of linguistic symbols with meaning to be organized in sentences. A symbol indicates its object or quality in communication. Dual