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