1. Interlingual Translation representation.

A. abstract language dependent

B. abstract language independent

C. direct

D. indirect

2. The words mammal and horse are related by

A. synonymy

B. antonymy

C. meronymy

D. hyponymy

3. Generalized quantifiers are used to model the denotations of

A. noun phrases

B. verb phrases

C. relative clauses

D. adverbial expressions

4. Which of the following set-theoretic relations is the most appropriate in characterizing the quantifier some?

A. subset

B. superset

C. intersection

D. disjunction

5. Which of the following sentences is not syntactically ambiguous?

A. I saw the man walking towards the railroad station.

B. I saw a girl with the telescope.

C. Old men and women love chocolates.

D. The cat chased the rat that ate the cheese had a heart attack.

6. Necessity and possibility are modalities.

A. deontic

B. alethic

C. epistemic

D. asynchronous

7. Burzio's principle can account for movement in

A. question formation

B. passivization

C. ralativization

D. topicalization

8. The notion of proper government is used in defining

A. binding theory

B. the empty category principle

C. the projection principle

D. the bijection principle

9. Which of the following sentences illustrates a violation of Condition C of the binding theory?

A. *Whoi does hei like ti?

B. *Whoi does hisi mother like ti?

C. *Who do you think likes Mary?

D. *Whoi is liked ti by himi?

10. Syntactic trees are dispensed with in

A. TAG

B. DCG

C. HPSG

D. CFG

11. Tree adjoining grammars have stronger generative capacity than

A. indexed grammars

B. context-sensitive grammars

C. context-free phrase structure grammars

D. none of the above

12. The extended projection principle requires that

A. every syntactic head must project a phrase

B. every sentence must have an object

C. every sentence must have a verb

D. every sentence must have a subject

13. According to Chomsky, what could an ideal grammar be?

A. Descriptively and theoretically adequate.

B. Stuctural and nonstructural factors.

C. Comparision of performance

D. Precondition for theoretical adequacy

14. What are scholars have often called for relevant to a general understanding of human language?

A. A set of analytical principles

B. Rigorous analyses

C. Rigorous analyses and a set of analytical principles

D. Generative analysis

15. The production of discourse has important effects on the pitch contours, pauses and other of phonological structure.

A. Suprasegmental aspects

B. Linguistic subsystems

C. Sociolinguistic variables

D. Extra linguistic aspects

16. Language universals is the study about

A. basic English which is spoken world wide.

B. basic language which is spoken world wide.

C. the standard written English.

D. the nature of language (human language)

17. One key hypothesis is that Universal Grammar is

A. a biological inheritance.

B. basic English grammar

C. basic grammar which is used world wide.

D. grammatical theory.

18. According to Greenberg it appears that

A. subjects tend to precede objects in most of languages.

B. subjects tend to precede objects in a few of languages.

C. objects tend to precede subjects in most of languages.

D. objects tend to precede subjects in few of languages.

19. Most influential study of social stratification of language comes from

A. Dell Hymes

B. Charles Ferguson

C. William Labov

D. Joshua Fishman

20. A Grammar that lays down rules governing correct use of language is

A. Theoretical Grammar

B. Pedagogical Grammar

C. Perspective Grammar

D. Prescriptive Grammar

21. The most crucial criterion to decide whether a dialect belongs to the same language or not is

A. Mutual Intelligibility

B. Socio-Political

C. Cultural relationship

D. Historical relationship

22. Manual alphabet is used in

A. Braille

B. Sign language

C. Semiotics

D. Visual language

23. La Parole and the La Langue roughly parallels the notion

A. Competence and Performance

B. I-Language and E-Language

C. Language and Dialect

D. Idiolect and Language

24. A more accurate view of Language Change is

A. sudden

B. gradual

C. lexically diffused

D. sudden and gradual

25. Linguistic use of suprasegmental features is called

A. Phonetics

B. Prosody

C. Style

D. Intonation

26. False friends are those words that look

A. same in two languages but do not mean the same.

B. different in two languages but have same meaning.

C. same in two languages and have same meaning.

D. different in two languages and have different meaning.

27. Unstressed elements that have syntactic relevance are called

A. Clitics

B. Particles

C. Affixes

D. Tones

28. The contentless elements but that have syntactic relevance are called

A. Empty elements

B. Pleonastic elements

C. Zero elements

D. Null elements

29. Phonological units that are completely syllabified within a syllable:

A. Ambisyllabic

B. Amphisyllabic

C. Tautosyllabic

D. Extrasyllabic

30. Parsing the grammatical elements of a sentence.

A. Generating structure of

B. Analyzing and labeling

C. Analyzing and generating

D. Analysis and comprehension of

31. Morphological phenomenon involving the formation of new lexemes is

A. Inflexional

B. Derivation

C. Compounding

D. Incorporation

32. an influential structuralist treatment analyzing word meaning where decomposition or meaning is the main focus.

A. componential analysis

B. transformational analysis

C. contrastive analysis

D. comparative analysis

33. formalisms is the least amenable to computational implementation?

A. HPSG

B. LFG

C. GB

D. TAG

34. Tree Adjoining Grammar is developed by

A. Noam Chomsky

B. Joan Bresnan

C. Ivan Sag

D. Aravind K Joshi

35. the theory of Two-Level Morphology.

A. John MacCarthy

B. Paul Kiparsky

C. Kimmo Koskenniemi

D. John Goldsmith


36. The variable condition is used in defining

A. compounds

B.lexemes

C. word-forms

D. words

37. The term" Communicative competence" was first introduced by

A. Mark Aronoff

B. Noam Chomsky.

C. Dell Hymes

D. C.F. Hocket.

38. Through the we are able to compare and find out the similiarities and differences between the T.L and mother tongue.

A. Contrastive Analysis

B. Transformational grammar

C. Context-sensitive grammar

D. Language Skills

39. One of the following is not a language test:

A. Achievement test

B. proficiency test

C. Diagnostic test

D. ECG test

40. As an alternative to the Grammar Translation was developed.

A. Communicative Language Method

B. Direct Method

C. Computer Aided Language Teaching method

D. Silent way method

41. If a person learns a language informally by contact and usage then it is called as

A. Language learning

B. language proficiency

C. Language Acquisition

D. Language Borrowing

42. The in-built dictionary of a person is called

A. Mental Lexicon

B. Etymological Dictionary

C. Social lexicon

D. Theoretical Dictionary

43. The book "Manual of Lexicography" is written by

A. R.A.Singh

B. V.P.Singh

C. L.Zugusta

D. Eugene Nida

44. A Lexical Entry consists of two parts. They are

A. Word and Meaning

B. Lemma and Body

C. Lexicon and Grammar

D. Idiom and Phrase

45. To collect lexicographical data from an undescribed Language, a lexicographer method.

A. Contrastive Method

B. Comparative Method

C. Field Method

D. Extraction Method

46. Endocentric compounds have

A. heads inside the compound

B. heads outside the compound

C. a single discernible head

D. no single discernible head

47. Which of the following statements are correct?

A. happy is a homonym of sad.

B. finger is an meronym of hand.

C. blue is a synonym of color.

D. soccer is a hyponym of ball

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

A. personal

B. familial

C. regional

D. social

49. 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

50. Language distance is

A. the degree of difference between two languages.

B. the degree of similarity between two languages.

C. the comparisons of structural similarities.

D. only measured by learners' judgements.

51. Compounding is a phenomenon.

A. syntactic

B. morphological

C. phrasal

D. concatenative

52. responsible for models of morphology.

A. Charles F.Hockett

B. Mark Aronoff

C. Eugene A.Nida

D. Rajendra Singh

53. is largely responsible for a theory of word based Morphology.

A. JackendoffR

B. Aronoff, Mark

C. Halle, Morris

D. Matthews, Peter

54. The theory of Generative Lexicon ows its origin to

A. Pustejovsky, J

B. Zgusta, L.

C. Cruse, A.

D. Lyons, J.

55. a pioneer in the field of measuring psychological distance between words.

A. Osgood, C.E.

B. Fillmore, C.

C. Bllomfield, L.

D. Lyons, John.

56. Peter Mark Roget's most influential work is

A. Mental Lexicon

B. Thesaurus

C. WordNet

D. Mannual Lexicography

57. Africa and Asia constitute of the modem language spoken on the earth.

A. Less than 20%

B. More than 60%

C. Less than 40%

D. More than 80%

58. One of the first demonstrations of the existence of major statistical regularities In Language is best known by

A. Zipfs law

B. Grammarian's law

C. Grimm's law

D. Lachmann's law.

59. Many children will be able to produce sentences by

A. one year

B. 2 years

C. 6 years

D. 4 years

60. The phenomenon of consonants produced using two points of articulation is called

A. Double articulation

B. Co-articulation

C.Parallel articulation

D. Overlapping articulation


61. Which research paradigm is based on the pragmatic view of reality?

A. quantitative research

B. qualitative research

C. mixed research

D. none of the above

62. Which research paradigm is least concerned about generalizing its findings?

A. quantitative research

B. qualitative research

C. mixed research

D. none of the above


63. Which of the following best describes quantitative research?

A. the collection of numerical data

B. an attempt to confirm the researcher's hypotheses

C. research that is exploratory

D. research that attempts to generate a new theory

64. A condition or characteristic that can take on different values or categories is called

A. a constant

B. a variable

C. a cause-and-effect relationship

D. a descriptive relationship

65. A variable that is presumed to cause a change in another variable is called

A. categorical variable

B. dependent variable

C. independent variable

D. intervening variable

66. All of the following are common characteristics of experimental research except

A. it relies primarily on the collection of numerical data

B. it can produce important knowledge about cause and effect

C. it uses the deductive scientific method

D. it rarely is conducted in a controlled setting or environment

67. Qualitative research is of ten exploratory and has all of the following characteristics except:

A. it is typically used when a great deal is already known about the topic of interest

B. it relies on the collection of non numerical data such as words and pictures

C. it is used to generate hypotheses and develop theory about phenomena in the world

D. it uses the inductive scientific method

68. Historical research is interpretative.

A. True

B. False

C. partially true

D. none of the above

69. The following is an essential step in the process of Applied area of research.

A. Preparing a report or narrative exposition

B. Identifying a research topic and formulation of the research problem

C. Data collection, Data synthesis

D. All of the above

70. Research in descriptive linguistics relied on

A. Interviews with people

B. Stories and tales

C. Elicitation

D. All of the above

71. In historical linguistics, a primary source

A. consists of first hand accounts by witnesses to events

B. can consist of written records

C. can consist of externally reconstructed materials

D. can consist of internally reconstructed material

72. when writing theses, papers and articles many researchers in Linguistics internationally prefer to use

A. The Publication Manual of the Language Association

B. The Chicago Manual of Style

C. The LSA Manual of Style

D. The Indian Linguistics Manual of Style

73. When a citation includes more authors, only the surname of the first author is cited followed by et al.

A. 3

B. 4

C. 5

D. 6

74. Which of the following is not one of the seven major parts to the research report?

A. Results

B. Abstract

C. Method

D. Footnotes

75. Which type of research provides the strongest evidence about the existence of cause-and­effect relationships?

A. non-experimental research

B. experimental research

C. rationalist account

D. empirical research