A Study of Language by George Yule (MCQS)
A Study of Language by George Yule (MCQS)
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Work Hard, even being Vendor, Almighty will award you the reward of your struggle, if you are believer.
In the Name of Allah who is Rahman and Raheem.
b. Eponyms .......................................................... 8
a. Coinage............................................................ 8
Contents b. Eponyms--A ..................................................... 8
Preface ......................................................................... 1
a. Compounding .................................................. 8
The Study of Language By George Yule ........................... 6
b. Clipping............................................................ 8
a. Pragmatics ....................................................... 6
c. Word ............................................................... 8
b. Phonetics---A ................................................... 6
a. Borrowing ........................................................ 8
c. Phonology ........................................................ 6
a. Compounding .................................................. 8
32. Ch#4 Sound pattern of language .................... 7
a. Blending .......................................................... 8
a. Phonology ........................................................ 7
b. Clipping............................................................ 9
b. Phonetics ......................................................... 7
a. Clipping............................................................ 9
a. Allophone......................................................... 7
a. Hypocorism ..................................................... 9
b. Allomorph ........................................................ 7
b. Blending .......................................................... 9
c. Phoneme .......................................................... 7
c. Clipping............................................................ 9
a. Phones ............................................................. 7
a. Backformation ................................................. 9
b. Allophone......................................................... 7
b. Borrowing ........................................................ 9
c. Allomorph ........................................................ 7
a. Conversion ...................................................... 9
a. Allophone......................................................... 7
b. Backformation ................................................. 9
b. Phones ............................................................. 7
c. Blending .......................................................... 9
c. Allomorph ........................................................ 7
a. Acronyms ........................................................ 9
a. Syllable ............................................................. 7
b. Blending .......................................................... 9
b. Phoneme .......................................................... 7
a. Affixes .............................................................. 9
45. Assimilation.................................................. 8
b. Blending .......................................................... 9
Chapter # 5 .................................................................. 8
a. Stem ................................................................ 9
47. Word formation ............................................... 8
Chapter #6 Morphology ......................................... 9
a. Morphology--A..................................................... 8
a. Morpheme—A ................................................ 9
b. Syntax................................................................... 8
b. Allomorph...................................................... 10
c. Semantics ............................................................. 8
c. Phoneme ....................................................... 10
a. Morphology ..................................................... 8
a. Free ............................................................... 10
b. Semantics ......................................................... 8
b. Bound Morpheme ......................................... 10
c. Neologism ........................................................ 8
c. Derivational Morpheme ................................ 10
a. Coinage ............................................................ 8
a. Bound ............................................................ 10
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Work Hard, even being Vendor, Almighty will award you the reward of your struggle, if you are believer.
In the Name of Allah who is Rahman and Raheem.
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Work Hard, even being Vendor, Almighty will award you the reward of your struggle, if you are believer.
In the Name of Allah who is Rahman and Raheem.
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Work Hard, even being Vendor, Almighty will award you the reward of your struggle, if you are believer.
In the Name of Allah who is Rahman and Raheem.
a. Language ........................................................ 16
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Work Hard, even being Vendor, Almighty will award you the reward of your struggle, if you are believer.
In the Name of Allah who is Rahman and Raheem.
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Work Hard, even being Vendor, Almighty will award you the reward of your struggle, if you are believer.
In the Name of Allah who is Rahman and Raheem.
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Work Hard, even being Vendor, Almighty will award you the reward of your struggle, if you are believer.
In the Name of Allah who is Rahman and Raheem.
b. Juncture b. Semantics
c. Syllable c. Neologism
42. The syllable with no “coda” is called 49. Study of history and origin of words.[Latin
a. Open syllable—A words, Etymon(original form), Logia
b. Close syllable (study)]
c. Rythm a. Physiology
43. Syllable with no onset is called b. Newlogy
a. Open syllable c. Elipsis
b. Close syllable--A 50. Least common process of word formation
c. Rythm e.g. Trade names, aspirine, nylon etc.
44. The possible pattern in a syllable is called a. Coinage:
-----i.e CV,CVC,VCC etc. b. Eponyms
a. Consonant cluster—A c. Clipping
b. Vowel cluster 51. New word based on the name of a person
c. Word formation or place e.g. Jeans(Italian city of Genoa)
45. Assimilation : when two segment of a. Coinage:
sound occurs in a sequence and the some
b. Eponyms--A
aspects of one segment is taken or copied
c. Clipping
by other, the process is called-----. V—f,
52. Borrowing, compounding, blending,
i.e.I have to-----------I haf to…
clipping, backformation, conversion,
a. Elision
acronyms,
b. Morphomic analysis
derivation(affixes)
c. Assimilation--A
a. Compounding
46. The process of not pronouncing a sound
b. Clipping
segment that might be present in the
c. Word formation--A
deliberately careful pronounciation of a
53. New word from other language (sofa-
word in isolation, i.e. We asked him----
Arabic)
/wiəstəm/
a. Borrowing
a. Elision--A
b. Getting
b. Morphomic analysis
c. Newology
c. Assimilation
54. Making a word by joing tow separate
words, class + room=classroom
Chapter # 5 a. Compounding
b. Clipping
47. Word formation c. Blending
a. Morphology--A 55. Combination of two forms by taking the
b. Syntax parts from mother words. Motel(motor+
c. Semantics hotel), Telecast (television+ broadcast)
48. Study of new words
a. Blending –A
a. Morphology
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Work Hard, even being Vendor, Almighty will award you the reward of your struggle, if you are believer.
In the Name of Allah who is Rahman and Raheem.
b. Clipping b. Infix—A
c. Hypocrism c. Prefix
56. Shortening the syllable. 63. Addition before root word( un+ pleasant=
Ad(advertisement), Cab( Cabriolet) unpleasant
a. Clipping a. Suffix
b. Blending b. Infix
c. Compounding c. Prefix--A
57. A type of reduction in British and 64. Addition at the end of the word(
Australian English Movie( Moving heart+less= heartless), it is of two types.
picture), A longer word is reduced to a a. Suffix--A
single syllable then “y” or “ie” is added at b. Infiz
the end. Telly(Television) c. Prefix
a. Hypocorism--A 65. Class maintaining, boy +s---boys
b. Blending a. Inflexational --A
c. Clipping b. Derivational
58. Reducing a word (typically a noun) c. Infix
to make a new word (verb). Donate
(Donation), Televise (Television) 66. Derivational : class changing, brave+ly---
a. Backformation—A bravely
b. Borrowing a. Inflexational
c. Compounding b. Derivational --A
59. Changing of function of a verb without c. Infix
reduction. Take over ---takeover, bottle,
water etc. 67. The root word is called stem. Bravely----
a. Conversion—A Brave (root)
b. Backformation a. Stem
c. Blending b. Main word
60. New word formation by initiatl words. c. Both --A
CD (Compact Disk)
a. Acronyms—A Chapter #6 Morphology
b. Blending
68. Study of forms of grammatical units ,their
c. Conversion
meanings, structure and function
61. By adding a syllable before or end
a. Semantics
of the word. Mis+ understand=
b. Morphology
misunderstand
c. Axiology
a. Affixes(Derivation)—A
69. Minimal unit of grammar, having specific
b. Blending
meaning. Reopened( re+open+ed) three
c. Conversion
morphemes. These are two types.
62. Change within word (man---men)
a. Morpheme—A
a. Suffix
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Work Hard, even being Vendor, Almighty will award you the reward of your struggle, if you are believer.
In the Name of Allah who is Rahman and Raheem.
b. Allomorph a. Linguistics
c. Phoneme b. Grammar--A
70. ---stand themselves as single and word. c. Structure Analysis
a. Free morphemes—A 77. The prescriptive and ancient type of
b. Bound Morpheme grammar , and study of its constituents as
c. Derivational Morpheme in Latin and Greek. This is based on the
71. Morphemes which carry the content of parts of speech. Noun, pronoun, verb,
meassage (nouns, verbs, adjective) adjectives etc.
a. Derivational a. Traditional grammar—A
b. Lexical—A b. Phrase Structure
c. Functional c. Transformative Generative Grammar
72. Closed class of words( preposition, 78. The relationship of words whom they
pronoun, articles,conjunctions) qualify. I love Catherin.----( love ---
a. Functional Morphemes Catherine)
b. Dreivational a. Theme
c. Bound Morphemes b. Agent
73. Lexical Morphemes which cannot stand c. Agreement--A
alone and need to attach with other 79. The phrase structure in formation of
morphemes. E.g. -re, -ist, -s etc, sentence.
a. Bound morphemes--A a. Traditional grammar
b. Free Morphemes b. Phrase Structure
c. Functional Morphemes c. Transformative Generative Grammar--
74. An actual form of word representing one A
version of a morphemes. Good---
good+s(two---) 80. Deep Structure:
a. Morphs--A 81. Surface Structure:
b. Allomorph
82. Chapter # 8 syntax
c. Bound Morph
83. The study of sentence structure and
75. One of the close related set of morphs( s,
function.
es), (d,ed)
84. Structure ambiguity:
a. Allomorph—A
85. Tree diagram:
b. Bound Morphems
86. Symbols and Syntactic analysis:
c. Allomorph
87. Phrase Structure Rules:
88. Lexical Rule:
Chapter #7 Grammar
89. Movement Rule:
76. The study of structure of phrases and 90. Compliment Phrase:
sentence, their rules and
functions(grammatical and Chapter # 9 semantics
ungrammatical)
91. The study of meanings
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Work Hard, even being Vendor, Almighty will award you the reward of your struggle, if you are believer.
In the Name of Allah who is Rahman and Raheem.
a. Grammar b. Diagnosis
b. Morphology c. Relation
c. Semantics 99. Two or more words with closely
92. Role of words to illustrate the meanings. meanings: buy/purchase
A. Simple b. Complex a. Synonymy—A
a. Semantic role(thematic roles)—A b. Hyponymy
b. Phormophological Analysis c. Family
c. Transfromations 100. Two forms with opposite
93. The performer of action is ---- and the meanings. Fast/slow
action is called ---.i.e.The boy(---) kicked a. Hyponymy
the ball(---). b. Relationship
a. Subject ,adverb c. Antonyms--A
b. Noun,Predicate 101. Opposite along scale. Big/small
c. Agent , theme --A a. Hyponymy
94. : if an agent use an entity to perform an b. Gradable (direct)--A
action, that is called --------. If a noun c. Indirect
phrase is used to designate an entity as 102. (indirect, complimentary):
the person who has a feeling, perception married/unmarried
or state, it fills the role of ------------. a. Gradeable
a. Agent,Theme b. Hyponymy
b. Location,Source c. Non gradable--A
c. Instrument ,experience----A 103. Raise/fall, pack/unpack
95. -------------is where an entity is in a. Reversive—A
the description of an event;(in the room ) b. Antonymy
a. Location –A c. Synonymy
b. Source 104. When a meaning of a form included
c. Goal to other. Carrot/vegetable
96. -------is where from an entity a. Gradable
moves. b. Hyponymy—A
a. Agent c. Synonymy
b. Source—A 105. Animal(dog---horse), dog and
c. Source horse are cohyponyms.
97. Where an entity moves. He drove from a. Joint Hyponymy
Chicago(source) to New York(--------). b. Antonymy
a. Goal—A c. Co- hyponyms --A
b. Source 106. Characteristics of one object
c. Agent of other( animal---dog—horse---cow)
98. The words can show or contains on a. Hyponymy
through their lexical relationship. b. Family
a. Lexical relation--A c. Prototypes--A
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Work Hard, even being Vendor, Almighty will award you the reward of your struggle, if you are believer.
In the Name of Allah who is Rahman and Raheem.
107. Different written form but same 114. (Greek word: pointing via
pronunciation. Bare/bear, meat/meet. language). It is of three types.
a. Hypones a. Deixis—A
b. Synonyms b. Affix
c. Homophones--A c. Suffix
108. When one word have same or 115. Him, them, those etc.
different meanings. Bank (of river), Bank( a. Personal Dexis--A
money saving place) b. Spatial Dexis
a. Homonyms—A c. Temporal Dexis
b. Hoponyms
c. Homoworkds 116. Here, there, near that etc.
109. One form having multiple a. Personal Dexis
meanings. Head( head of state, head of b. Spatial Dexis--A
team.) c. Temporal Dexis
a. Antonymy
b. Polysemy --A 117. Now, then, last week etc.
c. Synonymy a. Personal Dexis
110. Different forms for a concepts. b. Spatial Dexis
King/crown, house/roof c. Temporal Dexis--A
a. Metonymy –A 118. An act which a speaker /writer
b. Homonymy uses language to enable a listener to
c. Compulsory Words identify something.
111. Other concept with in concept. a. Context
Table—chair b. Reference—A
a. Concept Dveloping c. Inference
b. Homonyms 119. Additional information used by
c. Collocation--A listener to create a connection between
what is said and what must be meant.
Chapter #10 Pragmatics a. Context
b. Inference—A
112. The study of meaning behind the
c. Reference
text.
120. Use of pronouns (it) and noun
a. Syntax
phrases with the objects to refer back
b. Pragmatics—A
something already mentioned.
c. Syntagmatics
a. Anaphora—A
113. The set of words used in the same
b. Presupposition
phrase or sentence.
c. Context
a. Context—A
121. An assumption by a speaker or
b. Reference
writer about what is true or already
c. Semantics
known by the listener/reader.
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Work Hard, even being Vendor, Almighty will award you the reward of your struggle, if you are believer.
In the Name of Allah who is Rahman and Raheem.
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Work Hard, even being Vendor, Almighty will award you the reward of your struggle, if you are believer.
In the Name of Allah who is Rahman and Raheem.
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Work Hard, even being Vendor, Almighty will award you the reward of your struggle, if you are believer.
In the Name of Allah who is Rahman and Raheem.
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Work Hard, even being Vendor, Almighty will award you the reward of your struggle, if you are believer.
In the Name of Allah who is Rahman and Raheem.
a. Alphabetic—A c. Diglossia
b. Trancription 182. A variety of language which is
c. Symbolism distintive in pronounciation, lexis and
175. The orthography of english allows grammar.
for a variation, how each sound is a. Accent
represented. b. Dialect--A
a. English arthograph—A c. Diglossia
b. English Transcription
c. Symbolism 183. The study of dialects
176. Combination of two letters a. Language
representing a single sound. Ph /f/ b. Linguistics Analysis
a. Symbol Representation c. Dialectology--A
b. Calipraphy 184. A line on map separating two areas
c. Diagraph--A in which a particular linguistics features
dialects are used.
a. Diglossia
Chapter # 17 language History and b. Accent
Change c. Isoglosses--A
177. Indo-European---Geranic---English 185. The gradual merging of one
a. Family of Englis—A regional variety of a language into an
b. History of English other.
c. Syetem of English a. Language Continuam
178. Words in different languages b. Accent Continuam
having similar form and meaning. c. Dialect continuam--A
a. Cognats--A 186. The stat of two languages. A
b. Lexis persona who knows two languages with
c. Morphems same proficiency is called bilingual.
a. Bilingualism—A
179. Chapter #18 Language and b. Profieciency
Regional variation c. Both
180. A variety of language treated as the 187. A situation where “high variety” of
official language used in public a language is used in formal situation and
broadcasting, publication and education “low variety” for informal.
a. Dialect a. Diglossia—A
b. Idiolect b. Dialectology
c. Standard Language--A c. Idiolect
181. Aspects of pronounciation that 188. The process and procedure
identify where the speaker is from. adopted by government or
a. Accent—A organizationsto acquire/learn a language.
b. Dialect a. Language Teaching
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Work Hard, even being Vendor, Almighty will award you the reward of your struggle, if you are believer.
In the Name of Allah who is Rahman and Raheem.
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Work Hard, even being Vendor, Almighty will award you the reward of your struggle, if you are believer.
In the Name of Allah who is Rahman and Raheem.
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Work Hard, even being Vendor, Almighty will award you the reward of your struggle, if you are believer.