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