Modern linguistics is mostly prescriptive, but sometimes descriptive.
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What is the name for a British person? We can talk about 'the British' in general. '()' appears mostly in newspaper headlines while 'Britisher' is used sometimes by non-British-speakers.
A、English
B、Britain
C、Briton
D、England
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As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, and not to lay down rules for "correct" linguistic behavior,it is said to be ().
Aprescriptive
Bsociolinguistic
Cdescriptive
Dpsycholinguistic
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The last paragraph suggests that______.
A. a modern computer won't be down
B. computers can take the place of humans
C. there will be great changes in computers
D. sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people
40.答案为D 根据文章最后一段的描述:电脑死机,旅客们感到烦躁不安,从而可推知此题答案为D。
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Draw a labeled constituent structure tree diagram for each of the following sentences: 1) The student likes the new linguistics professor. 2) John suggested Mary take the linguistics class.
1)The student likes the new linguistics professor.
2)John suggested (that) Mary take the linguistics class.
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general linguistics
The study of language as a whole is often called general linguistics.
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