Schools of Linguistics

According to Saussure, sign is the union of...

• Sign & signature

• Signature & signifier

• Signifier & signifie

• Signifiant & signifie

Viewing a particular state of a language at some given point in time is known as...

• Synchronic approach
• Semantic approach
• Diachronic approach
• Functional approach

Grimm's Law concerns with..

• Similarities between languages
• translation method
• Differences between PIE and Germanic language group
• Differences between Proto Indo-European and Greek language

Viewing the historical development of a language and looking into the language with all its features change are the characteristics of..

• Semantic approach
• Diachronic approach
• Functional approach
• Synchronic approach

Two primary theories that hugely influenced the views on Linguistics/language studies in 19th Century were...

• Mechanistic Physics & Geography
• Biology & Mechanistic Physics
• Astronomy & Anthropology
• Chemistry & Physics

The ways that linguistic units can be combined into longer constructions are best to define..

• syntagmatic relations
• paradigmatic relations
• lexical relations
• causal relations

The relationships between elements that can substitute each other in the same position of linguistic structure are called..

• syntactic relations
• syntagmatic relations
• kinship relations
• paradigmatic relations

The physical data of the language that can be tangibly observed, according to Saussure, called..

• langue
• language
• parole
• creole

The general system that governs the language and, therefore, intangible is Saussure's concept of..

• creole
• langue
• parole
• language

The highest common factor of the phonemes whose opposition is neutralized, as coined by Trubetzkoy, called..

• archiphoneme
• allophone
• phonemic
• equipollent