According to Searle，those illocutionary acts whose point is to commit the speaker to some future course of action are called （）.

单项选择题Predication analysis is a way to analyze （） meaning.

A.phoneme
B.word
C.phrase
D.sentence

单项选择题It is the （） on Case assignment that states that a Case assignor and a Case recipient should stay adjacent to each other.

A.Case Condition
B.parameter
C.Adjacent Condition
D.Adjacent Parameter

单项选择题The sentence that has a NP and a VP can be shown in a （） formula “S→NP VP”.

A.hierarchical
B.linear
C.tree diagram
D.vertical

单项选择题Of the following sound combinations， only （） is permissible according to the sequential rules in English.

A.kibl
B.bkil
C.ilkb
D.ilbk

单项选择题The famous quotation from Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet”: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” well illustrates（）.

A.the conventional nature of language
B.the creative nature of language
C.the universality of language
D.the big difference between human language and animal communication