1. is the view point of

The researcher

The informant

The leader

The informal and researcher

2. Which of the following statements is not correct?

Ethnography is synonymous with fieldwork

Ethnography is the first-hand study of a small community

Ethnography is the comparative study of culture

Ethnography is an inductive research

3. What is the comparative method?

A way of contrasting the finding of two different studies.

A way of comparing the outcomes of several different studies.

A way of deciding which participants get highest scores.

Making comparisons between the findings from two or more different groups in a study.

4. In a research report, to refer to an earlier but not immediately preceding reference, which of the following is used?

Op.cit

Ibid

Loc.cit

None of the above

5. In approach, research is conducted first and then a theory is proposed.

Logical approach

Inductive approach

Hypothetico-deductive approach

Deductive approach

6. The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own is known as

Copying

Copyrighting

Plagiarism

Transferring

7. Encyclopaedia, dictionaries and book reviews will be listed under

Primary sources

Secondary sources

Elementary sources

Peripheral sources

8. In the list of references, the researcher should necessarily include

List only important citations

List even the citations found in the primary source

List only the primary sources

List all the citations used in the dissertation

9. A research article in an edited book can be

Only a primary source

Only a secondary source

Both a primary and a secondary source

Either a primary or a secondary source

10. Researchers in linguistics usually prefer to use

The Chicago Manual of Style

The Publication Manual of the Language Association

The LSA Manual of Style

The Indian Linguistics Manual of Style

11. Only the first author's name is cited followed by et al. in case of more than authors.

5

2

4

3

12. In historical linguistics, a primary source

Can consist of written records

Can consist of externally reconstructed materials

Can consist of internally reconstructed materials

Consists of first-hand accounts by witnesses to events

13. Research in descriptive linguistics relies on

Elicitation

Stories and tales

Interviews with people

All of the above

14. variable is presumed to cause a change in another variable.

Independent variable

Categorical variable

Dependent variable

Intervening variable.

15. best describes quantitative research.

Research that attempts to generate a new theory

An attempt to confirm the researcher's hypothesis

Research that is exploratory

The collection of numerical data

16. is based on the pragmatic view of reality.

Mixed research

Qualitative research

Quantitative research

Experimental research

17. is not part of a research report.

footnotes

abstract

results

method

18. Nine-year old children are taller than seven-year old ones. It is an example of

Vertical studies

Cross-sectional studies

Experimental studies

Case studies

19. The process that is not needed in experimental research is

controlling

observation

manipulation

reference collection

20. The factual goals are most important in

Historical research

Behavioural research

Theoretical research

Philosophical research

21. If HOBBY is coded as IOBY and LOBBY is coded as MOBY; then BOBBY should be coded as

BOBY

COBY

DOBY

(d)OOBY

22. Identify the odd one from the following list:

Java



Microsoft

Prolog

23. HTML stands for

Hyper Text Markup Language

Hyper Text Manipulation Language

Hyper Text Managing Links

Hyper Text Manipulating Links

24. Find the odd number from the following:

(a)6775

(b)5577

(c)3600

(d)2800

25. Most of the Universities in India get funding from

the Central Government

the State Governments

the University Grants Commission

Private bodies

26. Battery is to mobile phone as is to car.

steering

petrol

tyres

doors

27. Identify the odd one from the following list:

throat

nose

hair

ear

28. Identify the odd one from the following list:

Tiger

Cow

Lion

Elephant

29. Identify the odd one from the following list:

good

shy

cute

eat

30. Identify the odd one from the following list:

Ram

Boy

John

Mary

31. BZDX: FVHT::JRLP:

NNPL

NNLO

NMLR

NNKL

32. NUMBER: UNBMRE::GHOST:

HOGTS

HGSOT

HGOTS

HOGST

33. 'Demographer' is related to 'People' in the same way as 'philatelist' is related to

Photography

Fossils

Stamps

Music

34. "Blood' is related to in the same way as is related to

Petrol

Pipeline

Engine

Car

35. In a certain code SUNDAY is coded as YADNUS. How would CREATION be written in that code?

NOITAERC

INOTAERL

(c)IONTEARC

ERCITANO

36. In a certain code language, QUEUE is written as Q22, CHURCH is written as 1URl. Which of the following would be the most appropriate code for BANANA in that language?

B5A5A

B5A5

B55A

BA5A5A

37. If in a certain code language,

'Chip Din Chunk' means 'Students attend class',

'Din Sunk Dink' means 'Arjun is student',

'Jump Mink Sink' means 'Schools are

'Dink Mup Chimp' means 'Teacher is teaching'.

Then which one of the following is used for "Arjun"?

Sunk

Din

Dink

Chunk

38. In a certain code language Zoo Sim' means 'Eat Good Mangoes', 'Pus Sim Tim' means Mangoes and SWeets', and 'Tim Zoo Kit' means 'Purchase Good Sweets'. Which word in that language means

Zoo

Pus

Sim

Tim

39. In a certain code language

'pic vic nic' means 'winter is

nic means 'summer is

pic boo' means 'winter and summer',

'vic tho means 'nights are cold'.

Which word in that language represents summer?

nic

re

to

vic

40. In a certain code language 2 means 'hot filtered coffee', 5 means 'very hot day' and means 'day and night'. Which of the following numeral stands for









41 . A person having a speaking, reading or writing knowledge of several languages is called

Monolingual

bilingual

multilingual

polyglot

42. The most translated work in the world is

The Gita

The Bible

The Quran

Panchatantra

43. A 500-rupee note has its value printed in Indian languages.

16

12

14

15

44. In whose name is 2000 Rupees currency is issued in India?

Chief Minister

Governor, Reserve Bank of India

Secretary, Ministry of Finance

President ofIndia

45. The children in that class ten years old.

has

are

have

is

46. If he comes, we go to lunch.

will

would

will be

would be

47. Did you have any problem our house?

find

to find

finding

for finding

48. It since early morning.

rained

is raining

has been raining

had rained

49. I a lot of work today.

do

did

have done

had done

50. He will explain it to you when he back.

comes

will come

came

has come

51. She unconscious since morning.

is

was

has been

will be

52. If he of your marriage, he will be surprised.

hears

will hear

heard

will be hearing

53. My father tomorrow.

arrived

will have been arriving

has arrived

will arrive

54. The set of computer programs that manage the hardware/software of a computer is called

Compiler system

Operation system

Operating system

None of these

55. Which of the words is wrongly spelt?

queen

que

meet

meat

56. are words formed by taking the initial letters of a string of words and combining them.

Synonyms

Blends

Acronyms

Clips

57. is not a factor of language endangerment.

Socia-political influence

Inter-generational transmission

Official attitudes toward language

Percentage of speakers

58. is the analysis of words in terms of their semantic features.

Componential analysis

Word analysis

Semantic analysis

Matrix analysis

59. The concept of "Verbal behaviour" was proposed by

(b)L.Wharf

(b)F.Skinner

S.Pinker

LPavlov

60. The monumental work Linguistic Survey of India by Grierson was carried out during

1888 to 1910

1894 to 1928

1898 to 1900

1870 to 1894

61. A language which can be used for describing itself or any other language is a

Metathesis

Metalanguage

Paralanguage

Metaphor

62. William Labov's The Martha's Vineyard study focused on

How people pronounce the diphthongs

Semantic change in North America during the 1930s

How people pronounce final

The use of Latinate expressions in British American circles

63. In the case of naming is severely impaired.

Anomic aphasia

Broca's aphasia

Wernicke's aphasia

Global aphasia

64. The concept of "sprachbund" was proposed by

N. Trubetzkoy

C.F.Hockett

L.Bloomfield

J. Lyons

65. According to Searle speech acts are classified into

Five categories

Four categories

Six categories

Three categories

66. is known as the reference to an already introduced entity in a sentence.

inference

reference

antecedent

anaphora

67. In type of languages, morphemes are joined together relatively 'loosely'.

fusional

synthetic

agglutinating

polysynthetic

68. language does not belong to the Tibeto-Burman family.

Khasi

Ao

Mising

Rabha

69. is a branch of linguistics that deals with the analysis of crimes.

Bio-linguistics

Neuro-linguistics

Psycho-linguistics

Forensic-linguistics

70. In words imitate natural sounds or have meanings associated with sounds of nature.

halophrases

onomatopoeia

reflexives

iconic

71. Reconstructing the common ancestor (the proto-language) of related languages IS a technique of

Lexical diffusion

Regularity hypothesis

Comparative method

Internal reconstruction

72. In the world view of culture is conditioned by the structure of its language.

Critical Period hypothesis

Regression hypothesis

Whorfian hypothesis

Regularity hypothesis

73. is the author of The Generative Lexicon published in 1995.

Alan Cruse

James Pustejovsky

Geotlery Leech

James McCawley

74. The proponent of "The Great vowel shift" is

Peter Ladefoged

Otto Jespersen

Leonard Bloomfield

Daniel Jones

75. Noam Chomsky's Lectures on Government and Binding was published in the year

1979

1985

1981

1957

76. The book India as a sociolinguistic area is written by

E. Annamalai

L.M.Khubchandani

H.R.Dua

P.B.Pandit

77. is the author of the classic article "India as a linguistic area".

Einar Haugen

Harold Schiffman

M.(b)Emeneau

Bh.Krishnamurti

78. are the proponents of the "Theory of Distributed Morphology".

Morris Halle and Alec Marantz

Morris Halle and Noam Chomsky

Mark Aronoff and Mohanan

Morris Halle and Mohanan

79. Principle B of the Binding Theory deals with

Pronominals

C-command

DP

Trace

80. easy to please John' violates the

Theta theory

The A-over-A condition

The extended projection principle

The specified subject condition