Ethnolinguistics: Quiz 1

Which of the following definitions corresponds to the term 'anthropological linguistics'?

• the study of lesser-known languages through fieldwork

• the field of study which is concerned with the ways in which specific societies name and classify plants

• the field of study which is interested in the ways peoples or nations interact

Select the topics which anthropological linguists are interested in:

• language description

• language and culture

• the study of language based on large collections of language use stored in corpora

• comparative study of languages

What is the name of the first linguists who compiled the most detailed grammar of Sanskrit?

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Pāṇini

• Seneca

What notions are discussed in Pāṇini's grammar?

• phoneme

• morpheme

• root

• all of the above

According to the hypothesis favouring the divine source, which of the following languages was the first universal human language ?

• Hebrew

• Sanskrit

• Latin

• Greek

What are the four basic language groups proposed by Joseph Justus Scaliger?

• Romance

• Slavic

• Greek

• Finno-Ugric

• German

Which of the following scholars used biological terminology in the field of language study for the first time?

• Fredrich von Schlegel

• Pāṇini

• Democritus

• Jean Jacques Rosseau

According to Wilhelm von Humboldt, how should language be studied?

• in the context of culture and the national spirit

• without the context of culture and the national spirit

• grammatical structures should be compared but not individual words