2018年3月7日彭博社一篇报道的题目是This is the Year China’s Economy Passes the Eurozone,即“这是中国经济超过欧元区的一年”,标题中的China’s Economy Passes the Eurozone有主语和时态,显然是个句子,用来修饰名词year,所以确定是定语从句。
A language and its written form constitute two separate systems of signs. The sole reason for the existence of the latter is to represent the former. The object of study in linguistics is not a combination of the written word and the spoken word. The spoken word alone constitutes that object. But the written word is so intimately connected with the spoken word it represents that it manages to usurp the principal role. As much or even more importance is given to this representation of the vocal sign as to the vocal sign itself. It is rather as if people believed that in order to find out what a person looks like it is better to study his photograph than his face.