M.A. (Semester II) (CBCS) Examination Mar/Apr-2018
English (Paper III)
INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
Time: 2½ Hours
Max. Marks: 70
Instructions: All questions are compulsory. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q.1
Rewrite the following by choosing the correct alternative:
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Roman Jakobson was the leader of the school of Linguistics.
Australian
Prague
Sanskrit
Latin
In PS grammer, S is rewritten as
VP NP
NP VP
AP VP
VP PP
The sequence of lexical items in a sentence beneath the details is called as
terminal string
non-terminal string
lexical string
delta string
If a category consists of a sequence of words, it is called a
lexical category
phrase category
syntactic category
verbal category
Any number of relative clauses can be added to an NP is called
apposition
centralization
recursivity
premodification
Noam Chomsky proposed the theory of
TG grammar
PG grammar
LG grammar
MG grammar
A transformational generative grammar comprises three components
Synthetic, semantic and phonological
Synthetic, lexical and phonetic
Semantic, lexical and phonetic
Phonological, phonetic and morphological
is the subject matter of studies for generative phonologists.
The phoneme
The feature
The morpheme
The word
Chomsky‟s landmark book „Syntactic Structures‟ was published in the year
1947
1977
1957
1960
10) is a type of applied linguistics.
Stylistics
Phonetics
Morphology
Syntax
11) The expression is a deviant expression and forms a special paradigm.
a minute ago
a day ago
a year ago
a grief ago
12) The verb „fore suffer‟ used by T. S. Eliot in „The Waste is an example of
lexical deviation
grammatical deviation
syntactic deviation
graphological deviation
13) „His sins were scarlet, but his books were is an example of
parallelism
repetition
archaism
alliteration
14) „I wondered lonely as a is best understood as an example of
simile
metaphor
paradox
pun
Q.2
Answer any seven of the following.
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State two types of ambiguity.
What is stylistics?
What is a „syntactic category‟? Explain its sub types.
Explain the term „competence‟ and „performance‟.
What is „generative phonology‟?
What is „archaism‟? Give some examples of it.
Define „Oxymoron‟ with example.
What is „poetic
Q.3
Give PS rules for the following sentences:
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The young girls saw him in the library.
My friend bought a fancy dress for his wife.
Shared defeated all opponents in the election.
The college provided all course in Electronics.
Give syllable structure of the following:
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mix
leaves
stand
Q.4
Write a note on limitations of PS grammar.
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OR
Explain various types of deviation with suitable example.
Q.5
Analyse the following poem stylistically.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed. The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow; For he sometimes shoots up taller like an India-rubber ball, And he sometimes gets so little that there is none of him at all. He got a notion of how children ought to play, And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way. He stays so close beside me, a coward you can see; think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow stick to me! One morning, very early, before the Sun was up, I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup; But my lazy little shadow, like an errant sleepy head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.