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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI 600 034
B.A.DEGREE EXAMINATION -ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIFTH SEMESTER APRIL 2018
EL 5502- LINGUISTICS
Date: 27-04-2018 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
Time: 09:00-12:00
I. Write short notes on any FIVE of the following in about 75 words each. X 4 20)
1. Briefly write about the relevance of linguistics to literature students.
2. Dialect and Accent
3. Enlist short and long vowels.
4. Langue and Parole
5. Pejoration VsAmelioration
6. Alliteration and Assonance
7. Who is Noam Chomsky and what does he mean by Generative Grammar?
8. Distinguish between Homonyms and homophones with an example. II. Write short notes on any FOUR of the following in about 200 words: (4X10
9. What are the branches of Linguistics? Explain.
10. Enlist the diphthongs with an example.
11. Give a brief account on the various organs of speech.
12. Explain the different sentence structures in English with an example.
13. How do lexical varieties enrich English Language?
14. Differentiate between Semantics and Pragmatics. III. Answer any TWO of the following in about 300 words: (2X 20= 40) 15. Attempt a syntactic and semantic analysis on any one of the following passages.
My parents kept me from children who were rough and who threw words like stones and who wore torn clothes. Their thighs showed through rags. They ran in the street And climbed cliffs and stripped by the country streams.
I feared more than tigers their muscles like iron And their jerking hands and their knees tight on my arms. I feared the salt coarse pointing of those boys Who copied my lisp behind me on the road.
They were lithe, they sprang out behind hedges Like dogs to bark at our world. They threw mud And I looked another way, pretending to smile, I longed to forgive them, yet they never smiled.
Always obey your parents, when they are present. This is the best policy in the long run, because if you they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.
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Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any, also to strangers, and sometimes to others. If a person offend you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. That will be sufficient. If you shall find that he had not intended any offense, come out frankly confess yourself in the wrong when you stuck him; acknowledge it like a man and say you didn't mean to. Yes, always avoid violence; in this age of charity and kindness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.
16. Explain the classification of consonants with adequate examples.

Enumerate in detail the kinds and types of Meanings.