1. A theory of grammar that also accounts for how children acquire their language is called a/an adequate grammar.

A. Observationally

B. Descriptively

C. Generatively

D. Explanatorily

2. The author of the Course in General Linguistics (Cours de Linguistique Generale) is

A. Ferdinand de Saussure

B. Charles F. Hockett

C. Antony meitte

D. Noam Chomsky

3. Lexical parts of speech provide the of the sentence.

A. function

B. content

C. structure

D. arguments

4. A grammar of a language contains

A. a lexicon and a syntactic component

B. a lexicon and phonology

C. a lexicon and morphology

D. phonology and a syntactic component

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

A. Paralanguage

B. Metalanguage

C. Metonymy

D. Metaphor

6. Parts of speech in grammar

A. cannot be determined solely based on their subcategories

B. can successfully be determined on the basis of their syntactic distribution

C. can be determined on the basis of their meanings

D. could be determined by their subcategories

7. Syntactic trees are

A. lattices

B. groups

C. cyclic graphs

D. directed acyclic graphs

8. The nod Constitutional amendment 2004 added the following four languages to the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution:

A. Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali

B. Bodo, Meiteilon, Maithili and Santhali

C. Bodo, Konkani, Dogri and Santhali

D. Bodo, Dogri, Konkani and Santhali


9. Chomsky's attack on behaviorism began with the publication of Review of Verbal Behaviour by B. F. Skinner' in Language. This publication came out in which year?

A. 1956

B. 1959

C. 1961

D. 1962

10. India as a Linguistic area (1956) is an article by

A. F.de Saussure

B. C.F.Hockett

C. Eugene Nida

D. M.B.Emeneau

11. Greenberg's Universal 29 states that:

A. If a language has the category of gender, it always has the category of number.

B. If a language has dominant SOV order and the genitive follows the governing noun, then the adjective likewise follow the noun.

C. If a language has inflection, it always has derivation.

D. Languages with dominant VSO order are always prepositional.

12. Which of these words would you expect to find as a lexeme heading a dictionary entry?

A. Giving

B. Gave

C. Give

D. Given

13. Roughly how many languages are there in the world?


A. 3,000

B. 6,000

C. 10,000

D. 30,000


14. It is said that population of the world is bilingual.

A. 10%

B. 30%

C. 50%

D. 75%

15. Which word best describes a person's individual preferences in language use?

A. Accent

B. Dialect

C. Style

D. Lingo

16. Which of these words do you most associate with prescriptivism?

A. Variation

B. Change

C. Tolerance

D. Correctness

17. Historical linguistics aims to classify languages by their and to trace the historic development of languages.

A. genetic affiliation

B. typological relation

C. ethnic affiliation

D. borrowed words

18. Historical Linguistics is also called

A. Synchronic Linguistics

B. Diachronic Linguistics

C. Etymology

D. Areal Linguistics


19. an Indo Aryan language.

A. Malto

B. Santhali

C. Sinhala

D. Gutob

20. What are the two levels of language referred to by the term

A. Phonetics and phonology

B. Sound and meaning

C. Kinesics and proxemics

D. Structure and use

21. Brahui belongs to the family.

A. Indo-Aryan

B. Austro-Asiatic

C. Dravidian

D. Dardic

22. A change in the form or pronunciation of a word or phrase resulting from a mistaken assumption about its composition or meaning is called as

A. Metaphor

B. Metonymy

C. Folk Etymology

D. Hyperbole


23. The expansion ofDED is

A. Dravidian Etymological Data

B. Dravidian Etymological Dictionary

C. Dravidian Entire Dictionary

D. Dravidian Entire Data

24. In Dravidian Languages, vowel length is

A. Contrastive

B. Complementary

C. Variable

D. Optional

25. Most common effects which typically occur in connected speech:

A. suffixation

B. elision

C. reduplication

D. assimilation

26. is possibly the earliest among the most professions ofApplied Linguistics.

A. Historical linguistics

B. Language teaching

C. Translation

D. Compilation of grammar

27. Degeneration or shrinking of the brain results in

A. Dementia

B. Dyspraxia

C. Amnesia

D. Dyslexia

28. Prolongations and repetitions in fluent speech are the features of

A. Cluttering

B. Dysarthria

C. Stuttering

D. Misarticulation

29. SYSTRAN is a

A. Speech Synthesizer

B. Speech Recognizer

C. Machine translation system

D. Machine transiliteration system

30. Identify one of the following that would not fit in the group:

A. Morphological Analyzer

B. Word Editor

C. pas Tagger

D. Parser

31. The Finite State automata is a/an

A. Statistical model

B. Linguistic model

C. Abstract computational model

D. Abstract scientific model

32. A generates word forms from given roots, categories and other morpho­syntactic elements.

A. Word Analyzer

B. Word synthesizer

C. Chunker

D. Stemmer

33. WSD stands for

A. Word Sense Directionality

B. Word Sense Disambiguation

C. Word Semantics Disambiguation

D. Word Sense Detector

34. Diction means

A. Choice of morphemes

B. Choice of language

C. Choice of words

D. Choice of speech

35. Use of an entry to refer to another entry is called

A. Label

B. Cross reference

C. Etymology

D. Lexicology

36. Head word, spelling and pronunciation are part of

A. Dictionary entry

B. Encyclopedic entry

C. Stock entry

D. Phonemic inventory

37. A book containing words and their synonyms is called

A. A dictionary

B. An encyclopedia

C. A Thesaurus

D. An Advanced dictionary

38. A book containing information about a branch of knowledge or all branches of knowledge is called

A. An advanced learner's dictionary

B. An encyclopedia

C. A diction

D. A Thesis

39. Which of these changes have not affected English in its development?

A. Loss of inflections

B. Loss of grammatical gender

C. Loss of final vowels

D. Apical displacement

40. Which of these statements about English is accurate?

A. English is a strongly polysynthetic language

B. English has no inflections

C. English is a Germanic language

D. English orthography closely reflects its pronunciation

41. Identify the correct statement about language varieties that you consider accurate:

A. Some languages have no varieties

B. Regional and social are two common kinds of varieties

C. Accents are phonetically conditioned

D. Genderlects are strongly codified

42. Name the well-known living historical linguist from India:

A. K.V.Subbarao

B. R.K.Agnihotri

C. Bh.Krishnamurti

D. D.P.Pattanayak

43. What is a corpus?

A. A type of large dictionary

B. A single written text

C. A tool for language analysis

D. A collection of representative samples of a language

44. Appropriate definition of Computational Linguistics is

A. Computing for linguistics

B. Linguistics with computers

C. Computational modeling of language

D. Computational modeling of linguistics

45. Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

A. Icon is a sign which resembles the object it signifies

B. Index is a sign that is causally connected to the object it signifies

C. Symbol is a sign that is arbitrarily and conventionally related to its referent or object

D. Semiotics is also a sign which are used to convey meaning

46. Which factor is the most important in influencing Communication?

A. personal

B. familial

C. regional

D. social

47. In Krashen's Input Hypothesis, he claimed that:

A. Success in a foreign language can be attributed by Input alone.

B. Success in a foreign language can be attributed by both Input and Output.

C. Success in a foreign language can be attributed by Input and Intake

D. Success in a foreign language can be attributed by Output alone

48. Applied Linguistics:

A. is a subset of linguistics which concerns theoretical principles.

B. deals with the application of theories to practical matters

C. is most restricted to pedagogical matters.

D. draws up a clear distinction between applications and theories.

49. Which statement is NOT correct?

A. Linguists are trying to maintain "pure-linguistics"

B. Psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics are no longer purely "applied" areas.

C. Semantic components brought a new interest in the social aspects of the language.

D. Social aspects of language was formerly considered irrelevant to theoretical linguistics.

50. Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis

A. focuses on the interference of the first language system with the second language system.

B. does not account for the difficulties encountered by learners.

C. used structural linguistics to find out the inner differences within one language.

D. considers language learning as the acquisition of a united unit.

51. In a morphologically complex word:

A. Inflection precedes derivation

B. Derivation precedes inflection

C. None of them precede each other

D. No relation exists between them

52. In the words underlined below which one is not a nominalised expression:

A. Clothing makes the man

B. That is an ancient building

C. The hole is gaping

D. The painting is Picasso's

53. In the word Crows is:

A. Both a root and a stem

B. Neither a root nor a stem

C. Only a root and not a stem

D. Only a stem and not a root

54. In the word oxen the plural morpheme is:

A. Grammatically conditioned

B. Lexically conditioned

C. Phonologically conditioned

D. None of the above

55. The Three essential features needed to describe a consonant:

A. Articulator; resonator; airstream

B. point of articulation; manner of articulation; voiced/voiceless

C. Stricture; velum; larynx position

D. lower jaw; articulator; voicing


56. is produced when space between vocal folds (glottis) is closed completely and briefly then released.

A. glottal stop

B. Murmur

C. Obstruent

D. Aspirate

57. Most sounds in human languages

A. are consonant sounds resulting from a blocking/stopping effect on the air stream

B. combines brief stopping of air stream with obstructed release causing some friction

C. are produced orally with velum raised

D. are produced with velum lowered

58. The English word relevant pronounced as revelant is an example of

A. Metathesis

B. Assimilation

C. Haplology

D. Dissimilation

59. Which of the following is not an economy principle in Minimalist Program.

A. Procrastinate

B. Shortest move

C. Wh-movement

D. Greed

60. In a word and paradigm model of morphology, words. are considered as

A. projection of root/stem and the associated morphology tactic property

B. combination of root/stem plus its formative

C. concatenation of root/stem with the relevant affix

D. projections of syntax

61. The notion of m-command is relevant to

A. binding theory

B. government

C. the A-over-A principle

D. theta theory

62. The Aspects model was abandoned because of its

A. excessive generative power

B. inadequate generative power

C. context independence

D. context dependence

63. In principles and parameters framework the principle of structure dependence

A. is subject to parametric variation

B. is subject to diachronic variation

C. is not subject to parametric variation

D. is subject to synchronic variation

64. Every language has a set of phonological rules that convert representation into representation.

A. mental, phonetic

B. phonological, phonetic

C. psychological, phonological

D. phonetic, prosodic

65. The words car and wheel are related by

A. synonymy

B. antonymy

C. meronymy

D. hyponymy

66. In which of the following sentences does a pronoun function as a bound variable?

A. every man hates it

B. some women hate it

C. every man who sees the Taj admires it

D. every man who owns a donkey beats it

67. The substitutivity principle appears to fail in

A. extensional contexts

B. intensional contexts

C. transparent contexts

D. incongruent contexts

68. The principle of compositionality states that

A. every sentences is composed of words

B. every word is composed of morphemes

C. the meaning of a complex expression is a function of the meanings of its constituents and the manner in which they are combined

D. every word can be decomposed into a set of attribute-value pairs

69. When individuals in network are linked to each other in more than one function, it is known as:

A. Uniplex network

B. Multiplex network

C. Duplex network

D. Thin network

70. The study of language as a means towards a better understanding of the social structure is known as:

A. Sociolinguistics

B. Anthropology

C. Social Studies

D. Sociology of language

71. A set of vocabulary used by a professional group is referred to as:

A. Accent

B..Register

C. Dialect

D. Style

72. A language which is used In a major trade, cultural and political hub may become

A. A national language

B. A trade language

C. A standard language

D. An official language

73. One who can understand her/his ancestral language but unable to use it in productive speech is termed as

A. A passive bilingual

B. A mature bilingual

C. An active bilingual

D. An intelligent bilingual

74. Deletion of grammatical morphemes and function words by a young child in his communication is called

A. Telegraphic speech

B. Non-fluent speech

C. Agrammatism

D. None of the above

75. Children who acquire two languages at a time-one at home and the other at school are called

A. Simultaneous bilinguals

B. Sequential bilinguals

C. Compound bilinguals

D. Coordinate bilinguals