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Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 30mins
The terms of "diachronic" and "synchronic" were suggested by...
Noam Chomsky
Ferdinand de Saussure
Edward Sapir
Jan Baudouin de Courtenay
The linguist who didn't belong to The Prague Linguistic Circle was
Vilém Mathesius
Roman Jakobson
August Leskien
René Wellek
The general approach of the Prague school may be called a blend of
functionalism + structuralism
structuralism + cognitivism
formalism + structuralism
functionalism + formalism
When did spelling reform become an issue?
15th century
16th century
17th century
14th century
How many categories were proposed by Aristotle?
3
5
7
10
Why does language split happen?
A dialect of a language used in a specific geographical area of a country is called
(a)
Continue the phrase: coherent speech
(a)
What is language faculty?
What feature of the language is the characteristic of the human language?
mode of communication
arbitrariness
interchangeability
creativity
A morpheme that can occur alone is called
(a)
Write the name of this linguist.
What are these two linguists famous for?
The first English printer, who, as a translator and publisher, exerted an important influence on English literature...
St. Augustine
William Caxton
King Alfred
Noah Webster
The pandemic that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, taking a proportionately greater toll of life than any other known epidemic or war up to that time...
(a)
School of linguists in the late 19th century who proposed the hypothesis of the regularity of sound change.
the Prague Circle
the Kazan School
Young Grammarians
Port Royal
Heroic poem, the highest achievement of Old English literature and the earliest European vernacular epic.
(a)
What is the name of this lexicographer?
The ability of a linguistic sign to carry some meaning for user
arbitrariness
mode of communication
semanticity
interchangeability
Define the Middle English period in faces and events (at least 3)
What personality does not belong to the Old English period?
King Alfred
Geoffrey Chaucer
William the Conqueror
King Henry IV
The Great Vowel Shift took place in
the Old English period
the Middle English period
the Early Modern English period
the Late Modern English period
The works of William Shakespeare mark
the Old English period
the Middle English period
the Early Modern English period
the Late Modern English period
American retention of gotten is an example of (a) .
