The exercise of True-of false statments on English Lexicology

1. " Modern English" means the Englsih language from 1500 to the present.
2. In English,"loan words" means words of Anglo-Saxon origin.
3. Words like " coupe d"etat（軍事政變）" and" etente（緩和）" are usually considered to be foreign by native speakers of English.
4. Technical words are never used in everday conversation.
5. The rapid increase in English vocabulary is due in the past to the receptive and flexible nature of this language.
6. Learning the Ranaissance English borrowed a large number of Latin and Greek origin.
7. In English,most of the literary words are French，Latin and Greek words.
8. The basic word stock of the English languae is made up of native words exculsively.
9. The great majority of the basic word stock of the English language are native words,that is words of Anglo-Saxon origin.
10.Because of the large-scale borrowings over the centuries loan words make up the most similiar,most useful part of the English vocabulary.
11.When an idiom is reworded,its sense is usually destroyed.
12.Since the end of the 19th century,the trend of dictionaries has been from prescriptive to descriptive.
13.After the Bible,Charles Dicken"s novels are the richest literary sources of English idioms.
14.The English language is noted for its wealth of synonyms and idioms.
15.Contents words are as class used more frequently than function words.
16.Longnan Lexicon of Comtemporay English(1981)is an ideological dictionary.
17.Phrasal verbs are idiomatic combinations of a verb and adverb,or a verb and preposition.
18.Most of English phrasal verbs are made up of one-syllable words,and are of native Anglo-Saxon origin.
19.The impact of context on meaning differs from one word to another and from one instance or passage to another.
20.Words of Anglo-Saxon origin are loan words.
21.A root is the basic unchageable part of a words.
22.The allomorphs of a morpheme differ in meaning and function.
23.A morhpeme is different from a phoneme,but it is identical with(相同）a syllable.
24.All affixes are bound morphemes.
25.A morhpeme is the smallest linguistic unit.
26.A word is a minimum linguistic unit.
27.Sufixation is diferent from conversion in that it does not change the word-class of the base.
28.Clipping involves the deletion of one or more syllbles from a word, which is also available in its full form.
29.Words of a semantic fied are synoymous.
30.A particular characteristic of componential analysis is that it attempts to creat components in terms of binary opposites.
31.Some English words can not be analyzed in terms of semantic feautures.
32.All words have antonyms.
33.The impact of context on meaning differs from one word to another and from one instance or passage to another.
34.The ability of one word to denote several sense is one of the basic peculiarities of human speech.
35.For most English words,there is no intrinsic（內(nèi)在的） relation between the sound symbol and its sense.
36.Synoyms are generally similar in affective meaning.
37.It is more likely for monosyllabic words to be homonymous than polysyllbabic ones.
38.In the antonymous pair "heavy/light" ," heavy" is marked（有標(biāo)志項(xiàng)）.
39.Complete synoyms do not exist.
40.Complete or absolute synonyms are very rare in English.
41.The two words "dear" and "deer" can be called perfect homonyms.
42.There are more monosemic words than polysemic words in Egnlish.
43.A word may have different synonyms or antonyms in different contexts.
44.Ambiguity refers to a word,phrase,sentnece or group of sentences with more than one possible meaning!
45.The elevtion of meaning is also called amelioration.
46.There is natural,logical relation between the sound symbol and its sense.
47.Compound words may be morphologically motivated.
48.The commoner the word,the more meanings it has.
49.Polysemy is an essential feature of language"s economy and efficiency.

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