1. The sentence "The boys all are playing football" is an example of

A. Quantifier floating

B. Quantifier raising

C. Raising

D. Verb raising

2. In the sentence "That man is my brother", where the phrase "that man" is used as

A. referring expression

B. indexical expression

C. predicative expression

D. fixed expression

3. In the sentence, "Raja came from Chennai", the noun "Chennai" is marked with the

A. Accusative

B. Dative

C. Ablative

D. Locative

4. Verbs such as "bet", "promise", "warn" and so on are

A. cognitive

B. stative

C. performative

D. illocutionary

5. Select the correct example for a subject control sentence.

A. Ram asked Sita to help

B. Ram promised Sita to help

C. Ram wanted Sita to help

D. Ram forced Sita to help

6. The sentence "I wash myself' is an example construction.

A. participial

B. reciprocal

C. reflexive

D. cleft

7. The sentence "John seems to be the best student" is an example of

A. control

B. Raising

C. Pro-drop

D. Exceptional case marking

8. The sentence "The man saw the man with the telescope" is an example

A. structural ambiguity

B. lexical ambiguity

C. semantic ambiguity

D. functional ambiguity

9. The ambiguity of "Flying planes can be dangerous" is

A. a phonological fact

B. a logical fact

C. a pragmatic fact

D. a syntactic fact

10. The relation between verbs "go" and "went" is described in terms of

A. deletion

B. insertion

C. completion

D. suppletion

11. How many morphemes are included in the word "credibility"

A. one

B. two

C. three

D. four

12. The noun phrases "the red brick" and" the first brick from the right" may refer to the same object, that is, may be

A. coreferential

B. intension

C. extension

D. sense

13. The sentence "The brick is "The brick is not white".

A. implies

B. entails

C. contradicts

D. states

14. The expression "Walls have ears" is an example ofa(n)

A. metaphor

B. idiom

C. simile

D. pataphor

15. the deictic pronoun.

A. he

B. she

C. it

D. we

Analyze the following data from Tetelcingo Nahuatl (an indigenous language of Mexico) and answer the questions from 16 to 20 below:

nIkwika sing' tIcuka 'You cry'
tIkwika 'You sing' tIcukataya 'You were crying'
tlkonik 'You drank' tIkonitIka 'You are drinking'
nlkonitIka am drinking' nlkwikataya was singing' tIkwikas 'You will sing' nIkonis will drink'
nIcukatIka am crying' nlcukak cried'

16. The morpheme which means is

A. uka

B. cuka

C. uk

D. cuk

17. The morpheme which means is

A. tl

B. tlk

C. tIc

D. t

18. The morpheme which indicates the future tense is

A. as

B. is

C. s

D. kas

19. What is the English meaning of the word 'tIkwikak'

A. You sang

B. You are singing

C. You will sing

D. I sang

20. How to express the English sentence was crying' in Tete1cingo Nahuatl?

A. nIcukataya

B. nIcuktaya

C. nIkcukatIka

D. nIkcukataya

Study the data given from Spanish and answer the following questions:
[rasko] scratch' [izla] 'island'
[resto] 'remainder' [riezgo]
[fuersa] [eski]
[vamos] [sinko]
[mizmo] [dezde]
[fiskal] 'fiscal' [espalda]
[sabes] 'you know' [hablas] 'you speak'

21. Sounds and are in___ distribution.

A. complementary

B. contrastive

C. similar

D. non-positional

22. Sounds and are

A. allomorphs

B. allophones

C. different phonemes

D. B andC

23. Based on your analysis of the data, which of the following words is phonologically possible in Spanish?

A. [azul]

B. [aztul]

C. [azdul]

D. [azkal]

24. Based on your analysis of the data, which of the following words is NOT phonologically possible in Spanish?

A. [nariz]

B. [rason]

C. [pezgado]

D. [servesa]

25. The sound occurs followed by

A. Consonant[+VoiCed]

B. Consonant[+Sonorant]

C. Consonant[+Voiced, +Sonorant]

D. Consonant[+Voicedi +Sonorant]

26. Critical literacy is strongly associated with the work of

A. Hodge and Kress

B. Clark and Ivanic

C. Widdowson

D. Pant Preire

27. A central concept that reflects an interim competence that contains elements from both the L1 and L2 grammar is

A. Intralanguage

B.lnterlanguage

C. Intralingual

D. None of the above

28. has universal properties that can be seen across the world's writing systems.

A. Listening

B. Singing

C. Reading

D. Memorizing

29. The results or effects that are produced by means of saying constitute

A. Locutionary Act

B. Perlocutionary Act

C. Illocutionary Act

D. Speech Act

30. The rules children construct are

A. Grammar Dependent

B. Structure Dependent

C.Lexical Dependent

D. Sound Dependent

31. The children who suffer from language deprivation during critical period are known as

A. Deaf

B. Dumb

C. Feral

D. Mute

32. Broca's claim is that the faculty of articulate language was located in the

A. Anterior portion of the left third frontal convolution

B. posterior portion ofthe left third frontal convolution

C. anterior portion ofthe left first frontal convolution

D. posterior portion ofthe left first frontal convolution

33. A speech disorder in which utterances are produced III an excessively rapid unrhythmical way is called

A. Stuttering

B. Cluttering

C. Cleft palate

D. None ofthe above

34. A child takes moon to be the name for cakes, round marks, postmarks and the letter O. This process is called

A. overextension

B. regularization

C. underextension

D. overgeneralization

35. The theory that language determines the world-view of its speech community has been proposed by


A. Charles F.Hockett

B. E.A.Nida

C. William Labov

D. Sapir Whorf

36. a process by which an input sentence is analyzed and assigned a suitable structure.

A. Parsing

B. Chunking

C. Analysis

D. Generation

37. language is a powerful tool for pattern-matching.

A. formal

B. natural

C. regular expression

D. finite

38. In Machine Translation, approach assumes the possibility of converting texts to and from representations common to more than one language.

A. direct

B. interlingua

C. transfer

D. hybrid

39. The resolution of pronoun references is called as

A. anaphora resolution

B. anaphor resolution

C. named entry recognition

D. clause boundary identification

40. the explicit aim of transcending the limitations of traditional character encoding and forming a universal standard.

A.ISCII

B. ASCII

C. UNICODE

D. UNIVIEW

41. a large database oflexical relations ofEnglish words.

A. WordNet

B. FrameNet

C. TreeBank

D. PropBank

42. Match the items in List-I with the items in List-II and answer by selecting the correct code.
List-I List-II
P. Glossary Related concepts
Q. Dictionary Technical terms
R. Thesaurus (iii) Common Vocabulary
S. Electronic dictionary Digital

code: P. Q.R. S.
A.
B.
C. (iii)
D.

43. Grammatical infonnation is usually given along with

A. Lexeme

B. Etymology

C. Labels

D. Headword

44. Etymological dictionaries are __dictionaries.

A. Synchronic

B. Diachronic

C. Comprehensive

D. General

45. Language Planning involves

A. Graphization, Grammatication, Lexication

B. Making the language transparent

C. Use ofthe language for radio broadcast

D. Implementing the language in literature

46. In the language contact situation the language that provides most of the lexical items to contact variety is

A. Lexicalization

B. Lexical diffusion

C. Lexifier language

D. Lexical decision

47. Identify the odd item from the following:

A. Idiolect

B. Dialect

C. Imperative

D. Mutual Intelligibility

48. The designation of an official language can foster a great deal of political tension that polarizes toward particular languages.

A. social

B. political

C. individual

D. community

49. coined the tenn diglossia to describe the situation of a community in which most ofthe population is bilingual and/or bidialectal and the two codes serve different purposes.

A. Noam Chomsky

B. Ferguson

C. Catford

D. Bloomfield

50. The branch of linguistics, which deals with the analysis of crimes is

A. Computational Linguistics

B. Forensic Linguistics

C. Anthropological Linguistics

D. Biolinguistics

51. The pulmonic airstream is initiated by

A. Closed glottis

B. Vibrating glottis

C. Lungs

D. Closed velum

52. Identify the odd one from the following list:

A. amplitude

B. frequency

C. sine wave

D. diaphragm

53. Sounds having open approximation are

A. fricatives

B. stops

C. affricates

D. resonants

54. Identify the correct sequence of the phonetic laws:

A. Verner, Grassman, Grimm

B. Grimm, Grassman, Verner

C. Verner, Grimm, Grassman

D. Grimm, Verner, Grassman

55. Match the items in List-I and List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:

List I List II
(a)Airstream pressure Nasalisation

(b)Oronasal process Plosion

(c)Articulatory process Voicing

(d)Phonation process Ejectives

Codes:









56. Identify the odd item from the following list:

A. Contrast

B. Complementation

C. Minimal pair

D. Morphophoneme

57. The process of segment deletion in the initial position of a word is known as

A. Prothesis

B. Aphaeresis

C. Apocope

D. Syncope

58. The interchange ofphonemes in a word refers to

A. Spoonerism

B. Assimilation

C. Epenthesis

D. Metathesis

59. The first Germanic sound shift or Rask's rule is also known as

A. Grimm's Law

B. Grassman's Law

C. Neogrammarian Rule

D. None of the above

60. The word "illogical" is an example for

A. progres'sive assimilation

B. regressive assimilation

C. reciprocal assimilation

D. distant assimilation

61. In a morphologically complex word:

A. Inflection precedes derivation

B. Derivation precedes inflection

C. None ofthem precede each other

D. No relation exists between them

62. If a morpheme has two variants, they are called as

A. allophones

B. allomorphs

C. portmanteau morphemes

D. zero-morphemes

63. A language consists ofwords which contain several morphemes.

A. agglutinating

B. inflectional

C. isolating

D. fusional

64. Agentive nouns in English are formed by adding suffix to a verb.

A. -able

B. -er

C. -ness

D. -ation

65. The morpheme in broader and worker are __morphemes.

A. same

B. different

C. complementary

D. free

66. A constituent which takes its reference from its antecedent

A. Anaphor

B. Adjective

C. Noun phrase

D. Verb phrase

67. Extended Projection Principle states that all clauses must have

A. Subjects

B. Verbs

C. Objects

D. Modifiers

68. In which work Chomsky has originally introduced the semantically nonsensical sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously"?

A. Logical structure of linguistic theory

B. Current issues in linguistics theory

C. Aspects ofthe theory of syntax

D. Syntactic structures

69. In an ergative case system, the case which is used to mark the subject of an intransitive verb and the direct object of a transitive verb is

A. Nominative

B. Dative

C. Absolutive

D. Accusative

70. The ___states that the meaning of a phrase or sentence depends both on the meaning ofits words and how those words are combined structurally.

A. Principle ofCondition

B. Principle of Compositionality

C. Principle of Government and Bonding

D. Principle of Cooperative

71. Words like "tale" and "tail" are

A. hyponyms

B. homophones

C. synonyms

D. meronyms

72. The semantic relation between "flower" and "rose" is that


A. flower is a hyponym of rose

B. rose is a hyponym of flower

C. each is a hyponym of the other

D. neither is ahyponym of the other

73. Identify the odd one from the following list:

A. Presupposition

B. Entailment

C. Constituent

D. Implication

74. Relative chronology of sound changes means

A. the occurrence of sound changes in the proto-history

B. the occurrence ofmore than one sound change

C. the order in which different sound changes have occurred

D. the occurrence ofonly one sound change

75. One South Asian language that has not been shown convincingly to be genetically related to any other language or language family is

A. Burushaski

B. Brahui

C. Malto

D.Kurukh