LING 1 PRELIM and MIDTERM EXAMINATION

Linguistics is prescriptive rather than descriptive.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What is the primary goal of Linguistics?

• A) Describe languages as they are spoken.

• B) Indicate what languages are like and how they are used.

• C) Prescribe how they ought to be spoken,

• D) A and B

• E) B and C

Linguistics as a Science is concerned with what people actually say, not with what they should say.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Deals with the sounds of language.

• Phonetics and Phonology

• Morphology

• Syntax

• Semantics

_________is concerned with the

origins, with how we came to speak.

• Antrhopological Linguistics

• Discourse Analysis

• Conversation Analysis

• Evolutionary Linguistics

_______has basically the

same range of concerns as sociolinguistics, but

takes inspiration more from anthropology than

sociology, and usually deals with small-scale non

-Western cultures.

• Evolutionary Linguistics

• Sociological Linguistics

• Anthropological Linguistics

• Psycholinguistics

_______ are concerned with the range and limitations on

structural variation among other languages.

• Typology and Universals

• PSYCHOLINGUISTICS and NEUROLINGUISTICS

• Semantics and Morphology

• Phonetics and Phonology

___________ studies how languages change over time.

• Psycholinguistics

• Typology and Universals

• Semantics

• Historical Linguistics

_______ is concerned with the aspects of meaning that are encoded by words and grammar.

• Semantics

• Pragmatics

• Syntax

• Morphology

______ handle the aspects of meaning of an utterance that come from its use in a particuar context.

• Semantics

• Syntax

• Pragmatics

• Morphology