<语言学教程>中存在的几个词法与句法问题值得商榷.其一,依据传统语法,我们认为,"Pitch varia-tions may be distinctive like phonemes,that is,they may contribute to distinguish between different words."一句中的to实为介词,因而其后面的distinguish应改为动名词形式distinguishing.其二,从词法和句法角度可知,"The sentence‘I can't eat anything'equals to‘I can eat nothing'when said with afallingtone on‘anything',but it means‘I can only eat some par-ticular things'when said with a fall-rise tone on‘anything""一句中的equals to这一表达不伦不类,应改为is equal to或equals,以还其本来面目.其三,以词汇学理论来印证,有理由认为friendship一词并不包含两个词根,而是包含一个词根和一个词缀,因而以它为例说明"一个词干可能包含两个词根"显然不妥.对这些问题进行剖析和讨论,可以促进我们在语言教学中重视语法和词汇、组合和聚合、词汇能力和词汇知识的均衡发展,从而达到语言教学的真正目的.
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