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General Linguistics

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The father of modern Linguistics was Ferdinand de (a)  

2.

Which linguistic disciplines deal with the sound of language?

a)

Phonology

b)

Phonetics

c)

Morphology

d)

Syntax

3.

Which linguistic discipline deals with the meaning of words?

a)

morphology

b)

syntax

c)

semantics

d)

pragmatics

4.

To which language family does English belong?

a)

Slavic

b)

Germanic

c)

Romance

d)

Celtic

5.

It is only some nations that were able to develop a fully functioning and complex language system

a)

true

b)

false

6.

What does the term : "Arbitrary" mean?

a)

komplikovaný

b)

odvozený

c)

společný

d)

nahodilý

7.

Which two competencies do you need to be able to communicate in a language? Use 2 adjectives divided by a comma.

(a)  

8.

Studying language at 1 given point in time is named with a term

a)

diachronically

b)

multidisciplinary

c)

synchronically

d)

thoroughly

9.

Studying the development of language over centuries is describet with a term:

a)

linguistically

b)

synchronically

c)

diachronically

d)

polysynthetically

10.

The linguistic approach brought by Ferdinand de Saussure is called:

a)

Individualism

b)

Structuralism

c)

Anthropomorphism

d)

Colloquialism

11.

This lecture will always be fun

a)

true

b)

false

12.

Identify the word class of the following word:

money

a)

verb

b)

noun

c)

adjective

d)

adverb

13.

Identify the word class of the following word:

slowly

a)

verb

b)

adverb

c)

adjective

d)

pronoun

14.

Use a suffix to change the following verb into a noun

paint

(a)  

15.

Give English definite article.

(a)  

16.

Identify the word class, which is not included in the following phrase:

a big house

a)

adjective

b)

article

c)

noun

d)

adverb