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