UGC-NET (NTA) Linguistics, June-2021

Total Questions: 100

11. The term 'concatenation' in morphology refers to:

(a) The Reduplication of morphemes in the words
(b) The circumfixation of morphemes in the word
(c) Numbers of inflections and derivations in the word
(d) Linking morphemes together in the word
(e) Separating the morphemes in the word
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: D. (c), (d) and (e) only

12. The pro-drop parameter determines whether:

Correct Answer: A. Subject of a clause can be suppressed

13. From the perspective of grammatical analysis as part of a two-way classification of syntactic construction using distributional criteria, which of the following is endocentric?

Correct Answer: D. the big house

14. Which of the following is a functional phrase?

Correct Answer: A. IP

15. In generative grammar, 'The assumption that the car was not working' is a/an:

Correct Answer: C. Complex noun phrase

16. Grammatically plural nouns that have no corresponding singular form, such as scissors, glasses are known as:

Correct Answer: C. Pluralia tantum

17. An expression that refers to something that people hesitate to mention lest it cause offence, but which lessens the offensiveness by referring indirectly in some way, is known as:

Correct Answer: C. Euphemism

18. A "Proposing" is a type of sentence in which lexically governed or subcategorized phrasal constituents appear to the:

Correct Answer: C. Left of its canonical position

19. ........... law covers three interrelated changes in the series of stops from

Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic: Voiceless stops > Voiceless fricatives, Voiced stops > Voiceless stops, voiced aspirated stops > Plain voiced stops.

Correct Answer: B. Grimm's

20. The assumption of ...... is extremely valuable to the application of the comparative method.

Correct Answer: C. regularity