UGC-NET (NTA) Linguistics, June-2019

Total Questions: 100

31. Humans are genetically imprinted with knowledge about language. Select the correct option from those given below which refers to this belief?

Correct Answer: D. The innateness hypothesis

32. Among many NPs, one of the types of NP can't simply occur in a sentence without any reference (coindexation) elsewhere in the same sentence is known as ........... in Government and Binding Theory.

Correct Answer: C. anaphor

33. Assertion (I) : In generative grammar 'EPP entails that there must be a subject (convert/ overt) for every finite verb in a sentence.

Assertion (II): The requirement that every NP must have a case in order to become the part of any utterance is explained by casefilter.
Select the correct option:

Correct Answer: C. Both (I) and (II) are true

34. Assertion (I) : The relationship by which language hooks onto the world is usually called sense.

Assertion (II): The semantic links between elements within the vocabulary system is an aspect of their reference.
Choose the correct option from the following:

Correct Answer: E.

35. Which of the following methods in historical linguistics has its aim to recover as much as possible of the ancestor language from a comparison of the related descendant languages and to determine what changes have taken place in these languages that have developed from the proto-language?

Correct Answer: D. Comparative method

36. Match List-I with List-II:

Correct Answer: C.

37. Assertion (I): In typology, morphological typology classifies languages into different types on the basis of how much and what kind of morphemes (free, bound, portmanteau) are used in them.

Assertion (II): Despite the best efforts huge corpus and rigorous training, typology can't classify languages into discrete morphological type.
Select the correct option:

Correct Answer: D. Both (I) and (II) are true

38. A clitic is an obligatorily bound morpheme which is distinct from an affix because:

(a) a clitic shows a low degree of selection for its host while an affix is very selective for its host.
(b) a clitic is' attached to a phrasal element while an affix is always attached to lexical item.
(c) a clitic most often has a full form, but a affix has no such form which may be full morpheme.
(d) a clitic is mostly syntactically motivatec while an affix is always morphological
Choose the correct option:

Correct Answer: C. All (a), (b), (c) and (d) are true

39. Match List-I with List-II:

Correct Answer: А.

40. Assertion (I) : Language is a social institution.

Assertion (II): Humans are born with an instinct to learn a particular language.
Choose the correct option from the following:

Correct Answer: A. (I) is true but (II) is false