UGC-NET (NTA) Linguistics, June-2019

Total Questions: 100

71. Assertion (I) : Regular sound correspondences constitute a strong evidence of genetic affinity.

Assertion (II): While they are fundamental to most approaches to determining language families, they can be misused.
Select the correct option from the following:

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

72. ........... is a term that we use in lexical semantics to describe a part-whole relationship between lexical items.

Correct Answer: C. Meronymy

73. ........... concerns the ways in which languages encode or grammaticalize features of the context of utterance or speech event.

Correct Answer: B. Deixis

74. In generative syntax, a verb can't give θ-role (theta-role) to:

Correct Answer: D. oblique object (adjunct)

75. A process that reduces the number of allomorphs and makes paradigm more uniform is called:

Correct Answer: A. analogical levelling

76. The H variety of a diglossia may not be used:

Correct Answer: B. in folk literature

77. The dance of honeybee exhibits which one of the following features?

Correct Answer: E.

78. The consonants whose articulation allows for a free airflow, without friction are:

Correct Answer: B. Sonorants

79. The word 'khôt-khôt', knocking sound in Hindi or a similar sound in most Indian languages is an example of reduplication which justifies a process of.....; it brings out word-to-word forms in the language.

Correct Answer: B. lexicalization

80. In a syntactic tree, a node 'X' c-command 'Y' iff neither dominates each other: this relation holds true for sister nodes and daughter nodes; however, we also have a special c-command relation between sister nodes and that is:

Correct Answer: D. symmetrical c-command