UGC-NET (NTA) Linguistics, June-2022

Total Questions: 100

21. Which article of Indian Constitution stipulates that the official langı age of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script?

Correct Answer: A. 343

22. The concept 'deixis' refers to

Correct Answer: B. Both spatial and temporal aspects

23. In dictionary making, the meaning of an entry word is expressed in another single word both of which are non-descriptive. This phenomenon is known as

Correct Answer: B. Circularity

24. The code used in relatively formal, educated situation not to be reliant for its meaningfulness or extralinguistic contexts is referred to as

Correct Answer: A. Elaborated code

25. The linguistic system of an individual speaker is called

Correct Answer: C. Idiolect

26. Which one of the following is a correct description of abhidha?

Correct Answer: B. It is a direct meaning of word

27. The past tense form "went" is an instance of

Correct Answer: B. Suppletive morpheme

28. A form of a verb capable of occurring on its own in a sentence and must be marked for tense is called

Correct Answer: B. Finite verb

29. The seminal article "Two models of grammatical description". published in 1954 is written by

Correct Answer: B. C.F. Hockett

30. The Nihali language spoken in Central India is

Correct Answer: C. an isolate