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- 1. Multiple Choice
According to Saussure, sign is the union of...
Sign & signature
Signature & signifier
Signifier & signifie
Signifiant & signifie
- 2. Multiple ChoiceViewing a particular state of a language at some given point in time is known as...Synchronic approachSemantic approachDiachronic approachFunctional approach
- 3. Multiple ChoiceGrimm's Law concerns with..Similarities between languagestranslation methodDifferences between PIE and Germanic language groupDifferences between Proto Indo-European and Greek language
- 4. Multiple ChoiceViewing the historical development of a language and looking into the language with all its features change are the characteristics of..Semantic approachDiachronic approachFunctional approachSynchronic approach
- 5. Multiple ChoiceTwo primary theories that hugely influenced the views on Linguistics/language studies in 19th Century were...Mechanistic Physics & GeographyBiology & Mechanistic PhysicsAstronomy & AnthropologyChemistry & Physics
- 6. Multiple ChoiceThe ways that linguistic units can be combined into longer constructions are best to define..syntagmatic relationsparadigmatic relationslexical relationscausal relations
- 7. Multiple ChoiceThe relationships between elements that can substitute each other in the same position of linguistic structure are called..syntactic relationssyntagmatic relationskinship relationsparadigmatic relations
- 8. Multiple ChoiceThe physical data of the language that can be tangibly observed, according to Saussure, called..languelanguageparolecreole
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThe general system that governs the language and, therefore, intangible is Saussure's concept of..creolelangueparolelanguage
- 10. Multiple ChoiceThe highest common factor of the phonemes whose opposition is neutralized, as coined by Trubetzkoy, called..archiphonemeallophonephonemicequipollent
- 11. Multiple ChoiceA linguistic response takes place after the presence of sensible stimuli surrounding the speaker is one of the ideas proposed by..BloomfieldSaussureBoasMathesius
- 12. Multiple ChoiceAn utterance uttered without prior stimuli presented to the speaker, according to Behaviourist, is called..speechdisplaced speechindirect speechdirect speech
- 13. Multiple ChoiceA linguistic school founded on the idea that there was no ideal type of language and thus human languages are of great diversity is..DescriptivistBehaviouristStructuralistJunggrammatiker
- 14. Multiple ChoiceAs part of Prague Linguist, Roman Jakobson developed a theory called..privativelinguistic relativitylinguistic universalphonological universals
- 15. Multiple ChoiceThe understanding of the language element behind the sign in the form of the speaker's concept or called meaning is ...signifiantparolesignifielangue
- 16. Multiple ChoiceAccording to Saussure, signifiant means..mental conceptspeech-soundlanguesyntagmatic relations
- 17. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following linguists belong to the Prague school?Bloomfield & BoasJakobson & Andre martinetSaussure & JakobsonBloomfield & Saussure
- 18. Multiple ChoiceWave' theory in language studies was initially proposed by..SchleicherMartinetSchmidtJakobson
- 19. Multiple ChoiceStammbaum theory considers that language is..an entity that expands across borderGodly giftbiological entitynot related each other
- 20. Multiple ChoiceThe subclassification of inflecting languages according to August Schlegel is..Synthetic and AnalyticSynchronic and DiachronicSignifier and SignifiedLangue and Parole
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