ENG501 Midterm Quiz from Assessments

ENG501

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Maha Malik History of English Language

1. Identify the aspect which is NOT the part of human language? (Chirping)
2. Which of the following statements is NOT true? (Human language lacks the ability of duality as in animals.)
3. Tick the right feature of language for the following statement. " Animals do not remember the place of food after few days or months." (Displacement)
4. ------------ is the degree to which native speakers use a particular grammatical process. (Productivity)
5. The absence of any natural or necessary connection between a word's meaning and its sound or form is called ---------------. (Arbitrariness)
6. “Yo-he-ho” theory relates to ........... . (The Social Interaction Source)
7. Identify the language that played a part in the Renaissance period? (Greek)
8. Identify the word which is similar to The English word “OK”? (The Latin homo)
9. Which of the languages survived currently in the language families? (Hebrew)
10. What is the number of languages spoken in the world? (Over six thousand)
11. The arrangement of words and phrases into sentences belongs to _________________. (syntax)
12. Phoneme is a part of ____________. (phonology)
13. The meaning of words belong to ___________. (Semantic)
14. Denotation is the part of _________________. (Semantics)
15. The meaning of language in use and the context/s in which it is used belongs to _________________.(Pragmatics)
16. RP is spoken in -----------. (Britain)
17. Which of the following is NOT correct about Modern English? (It is the language of poor people.)
18. English is also the common tongue for many non-English speakers over the world. (True)
19. The number of people who speak English as a foreign language in the world is ........... (More than 700 million)
20. General Zia-ul-Haq paved the way for an attempt at Urdunisation in all domains. (True)
21. There is indeed a fair amount of continuity between Old English and Modern English. (True)

Q22. Which period comes into your mind after reading the following statement?

" The Puritan Revolution overthrew the monarchy and established a military dictatorship." (Renaissance English period)

23. English language has changed over times semantically, syntactically and orthographically. (True)
24. A lot of linguistic change has occurred in English horizontally-over space. (True)
25. What causes language change? (New experiences, New technologies, Needs of speakers , All of the given options)
26. Synchrony and Diachrony are: two different yet complementary viewpoints in linguistic analysis. (True)
27. Synchronic Linguistics is the study of a language at a _____________ point in time. (given)
28. What is synchronic linguistics? Choose one of the following options. (All the given options, the study of dead languages, The study at a given point in time, It is from Greek συν- "together" and χρόνος "time")
29. In GA the letter ‘r’ is pronounced in all positions, but in RP it is only pronounced before vowels. (Yes)
30. What is the meaning of the term “diachronic”? (Throughout time)
31. The social and linguistic phenomenon by which transfer of linguistic features happens is called _____________. (Language contact)
32. A change which generally unfolds much more slowly, sometimes taking hundreds of years to run its course to completion is called----------- change. (syntactic)
33. The wave model is of the view that languages spread out in the form of waves not definite delineations between languages. (True)
34. In diachronic linguistics semantic change is a change in ONE of the meanings of a word. (True)
35. Which of the following change is NOT the part of the study of this course? (Paralinguistic)
36. Linguistics, in Saussure's time, approached the problem of the multiplicity of languages by trying to trace each of them back to a handful of common sources (like evolutionary biologists). (True)
37. Which of the following is NOT specific to English language? (Stubbornness)
38. _________ English is NOT part of the proper division in English periods. (Russian influence)
39. ________ is NOT part of the early stages of English. (French)
40. Currently, the word English may refer to _________. (South Asian English, All the given options, American English, British English)
41. _________ English is NOT part of the proper division in English periods. (Shakespearian)
42. According to ages, select the correct order of the given material: (Stone, bronze, iron, gunpowder)
43. Select the person from the following who is NOT part of Roman conquest. (King James)
44. Stone Age had __________ characteristics. (All the given options, Lack of education, Stones used as weapons, Lack of infrastructure)
45. In his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, completed in 731, Bede tells us that the Germanic tribes that conquered England were ___________. (Saxons, Jutes, Angles, All the given options)
46. The _________ spoke Latin language. (Romans)
47. English language is derivative of __________. (Anglo)
48. By 700, the __________ had occupied most of England and southern Scotland. (Anglo- Saxons)
49. The Wales is part of _________. (Briton)
50. ' Tiw'-the heathon god takes his name after __________. (Tuesday)