UGC-NET (NTA) Linguistics, June-2019

Total Questions: 100

41. Match List-I with List-II:

Correct Answer: B.

42. A language named Brahui which is spoken in Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Turkmenistan and Pakistan incidentally belongs to:

Correct Answer: B. Dravidian language family

43. The X-bar theory in syntax facilitates the generative grammar to explain and describe an intervening node by providing ......... for the configurational relationship in a phrase.

Correct Answer: A. an intermediate node

44. Match List-I with List-II:


Select the correct option:

(a)(b)(c)(d)
A(ii)(i)(iii)(iv)
B(ii)(iv)(i)(iii)
C(i)(iii)(ii)(iv)
D(iii)(ii)(i)(iv)

 

Correct Answer: B.

45. A term used in historical linguistics to refer to a type of borrowing, where the morphemic constituents of the borrowed WORD or PHRASE are translated item by item into equivalent MORPHEMES in the new language.

Select the correct answer from the following:

Correct Answer: B. Calque

46. In many South Asian languages, a subject may not be marked as a nominative case (covert/overt), and in such context, the subject of the sentence is known as:

(a) non-nominative subject
(b) experiencer subject
(c) dative subject
(d) oblique subject
Select the correct option:

Correct Answer: C. Only (a), (b) and (c) are correct

47. The words such as 'edit' and 'paddle' in English are examples of word-formation process in linguistics that is known as:

Correct Answer: B. back formation

48. Assertion (I): Typologists such as Schlegel and Humboldt could predict as early as in 1800s that languages do have an abstract organic unity.

Assertion (II) : Humboldtian claim that differences among languages reflected basic difference in the mental life of various speech communities can still be useful to modern linguistics.
Select the correct option:

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

49. Assertion (I): A register is a conventional way of using language that is appropriate in a specific context.

Assertion (II) : One of the defining features of a register is the use of technical terminology. Choose the correct option from the following:

Correct Answer: B. (I) is false and (II) is true

50. Which of the following is NOT a consequence or result of language contact?

Correct Answer: B. Diglossia