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