WorksheetsLinguistics Quiz
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
What is primary predication?
Subject-predicate relation
Object-verb relation
Modifier-noun relation
Verb-adverb relation
What is a structural characteristic of a sentence?
Subject-predicate arrangement
Emotional tone
Lexical meaning
Phonetic shape
What is a semantic characteristic of a sentence?
Refers to a fact in objective reality
Contains at least two nouns
Must be long
Always ends with a period
What is a proposition?
Main predicative form of thought
Non-finite verb form
Adverbial phrase
Contextual synonym
A sentence is defined as:
A predicative language unit
A lexical unit
A phonetic combination
A morphological structure
Conceptual reality refers to:
Mental representation of objective facts
A type of sentence
Physical environment
Word order
Lingual representation means:
Verbal expression of an objective situation
Creating new words
Changing intonation
Using idioms
What is an objective situation?
A real-world fact
A fictional story
A verb phrase
A synonym group
Predicative unit expresses:
Predication between subject and predicate
Word derivation
Phonetic assimilation
Lexical substitution
What expresses primary predication?
Finite verb
Gerund
Adjective
Adverb
Immediate Constituents are:
Two basic parts of any phrase
All verbs in a sentence
Only subjects
Only predicates
IC analysis divides:
Sentences into hierarchical layers
Words into morphemes
Sounds into phonemes
Texts into paragraphs
English phrase structure is:
Dichotomous
Trichotomous
Free order
Random
Syntactic ambiguity example:
Old men and women
The book is on the table
I like apples
Dogs bark
Oppositional analysis compares:
Sentence types using shared and different features
Only verb forms
Only noun types
Only adjectives
Constructional analysis treats secondary parts as:
Constructionally significant
Meaningless
Optional always
Phonetic units
A kernel sentence is:
Basic structural sentence type
A compound sentence
A phonetic pattern
A rhetorical device
One kernel type is:
N V
Adj + N
Adv + V
Prep + N
Valency-based kernels include:
N1 V N2 N3
Adj + Adv
Prep + Verb
Noun + Conjunction
Syntactic derivation means:
Forming complex sentences from kernels
Changing phonemes
Creating synonyms
Stylistic rewriting
Internal syntactic processes occur:
Within one part of sentence
Between two paragraphs
Only in complex clauses
Across two texts
External syntactic processes:
Create new relations, new sentence parts
Remove subjects
Delete verbs
Only change tense
Expansion example:
Ringing and ringing
The cat
Quickly running
A red apple
Extension example:
A nice cotton dress
The teacher
Running fast
A green
The utterance differs from the sentence because:
It is a unit of speech
It is always written
It has no meaning
It is only phonetic
Theme refers to:
Given information
New information
Hidden information
Emotional meaning
Rheme refers to:
New information
Old information
Speaker background
Synonyms
One rheme-marking device is:
Position in sentence
Word length
Syllable count
Color of text
Emphatic construction example:
It was the cat that ate the rat
The cat ate
A cat eating
Cat the rat ate
Performative utterance example:
I promise
The sun rises
Cats sleep
It is raining
