C. The General Principle of Universal Grammar D. Adjacency Principle
10. When any of the maxims under the cooperative principle is flouted, _D__ might arise. A. impoliteness B. contradictions
C. mutual understanding D. conversational implicatures I. Choose the best answer. (20%)
1. The person who is often described as ―father of modern linguistics‖ is _B__.. A. Firth B. Saussure C. Halliday D. Chomsky
2. The most important contribution of the Prague School to linguistics is that it sees language in terms of _A__.
A. function B. meaning C. signs D. system
3. The principal representative of American descriptive linguistics is _C__. A. Boas B. Sapir C. Bloomfield D. Harris
4. Generally speaking, the _A__ specifies whether a certain tagmeme is in the position of the Nucleus or of the Margin in the structure.
A. Slot B. Class C. Role D. Cohesion
5. _A__ Grammar is the most widespread and the best understood method of discussing Indo-European languages.
A. Traditional B. Structural C. Functional D. Generative
6. _A__ Grammar started from the American linguist Sydney M. Lamb in the late 1950s and the early 1960s.
A. Stratificational B. Case C. Relational D. Montague
7. In Halliday’s view, the _B___ function is the function that the child uses to know about his surroundings.
A. personal B. heuristic C. imaginative D. informative 8. The rheme in the sentence ―On it stood Jane‖ is __D__. A. On it B.