A) Syntax B) Descriptive Linguistics C) Phonology D) Historical Linguistics
A) Language isolation B) Language extinction C) Language acquisition D) Language contact
A) Ancient Mesopotamia B) Ancient Greece C) Ancient China D) Ancient Egypt
A) Dravidian B) Sino-Tibetan C) Afro-Asiatic D) Indo-European
A) French B) Swahili C) Chinese D) Basque
A) Celtic B) Germanic C) Romance D) Slavic
A) Indo-European B) Uralic C) Khoisan D) Austronesian
A) Syntax B) Pragmatics C) Morphology D) Etymology
A) Uniformitarian principle B) Comparative method C) Internal reconstruction D) Synchronic principle
A) Ferdinand de Saussure B) Edward Sapir C) Noam Chomsky D) Roman Jakobson
A) Comparative method B) Synchronic analysis C) Mass lexical comparison D) Internal reconstruction
A) Comparing changes in syntax between unrelated languages. B) Analyzing the evolutionary origin of language. C) Studying sentence structure and principles for constructing sentences. D) Formulating rules that model word-formation patterns over time.
A) Psycholinguistics B) Reconstruction of ancestral languages C) Etymology D) Synchronic analysis
A) Genetic evidence B) Historical records C) Archaeological evidence D) Linguistic evidence
A) By sharing a common vocabulary. B) By having similar writing systems. C) By being spoken in the same geographic region. D) Through convergence and borrowing.
A) Synchronic analysis B) Diachronic analysis C) Comparative philology D) Psycholinguistics
A) Written records always lag behind speech in reflecting linguistic developments. B) Sociolinguists did not study older periods. C) Gramophones recorded only spoken language. D) There were no written languages.
A) Jump → jumped B) Run → ran → run C) Walk → walked D) Sing ↔ sang ↔ sung
A) 10,000 years B) 15,000 years C) 5,000 years D) 20,000 years
A) Diachronic analysis B) Internal reconstruction C) Comparative method D) Synchronic analysis
A) They were always considered irregular. B) They are remnants of a fully regular system of internal vowel changes. C) They are irregular due to modern language rules. D) They follow the same pattern as weak verbs.
A) Convergence is about phonetic changes, while genetic descent is about vocabulary. B) Convergence results in new languages, while genetic descent does not. C) There is no difference; both terms mean the same thing. D) Convergence involves borrowing, while genetic descent implies a common origin.
A) Only convergence through borrowing. B) Only genetic descent. C) Both convergence through borrowing and genetic descent. D) The use of similar alphabets.
A) Internal reconstruction B) Comparative method C) Synchronic analysis D) Mass lexical comparison |