上海交通大学英语专业考博语言学试题.docVIP

PAGE  PAGE 5 2009上海交通大学英语专业考博语言学试题 I.Terms with examples 4x10=40 1. Functional categories: Words which do not denote objects, ideas, etc., are known as function words and they belong to classes known as functional categories. For example, Bill thinks that Tom and Dick have been visiting Harriet to ask for help with one of the assignments which have to be finished for the next morphonolgy class. 2. operator movement: Operator movement involves movement of an operator expression into the specifier position within CP. For instance, in sentence What languages can you speak, the phrase wha