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