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