ENG509 Midterm Solved Papers Set 2

Q. Category of word Undesirable.......

Adjective · Noun · Adverb

Q. which one is not the part of speech.......

Noun · Verb · Adverb · Adjective

Q. A sentences that contain at least one simple clause......

Compound · complex · complex compound · simple · Q. productive plural marks in English · -s · -es · en · all of the given

Q. Items such as .............. are phonologically dependent on adjacent words are called clitics.

THE AND for

Q. Most people are....... Is controlled by left hemisphere..

Tongue · motivation · speech · movement

Q. Which if the following is common property of syntax of all languages..

Universality · creativity · generality · all the given

Q. On which of following basis words are assigned to grammatical categories /part of speech..

Morphological properties

syntactic properties semantic properties all the given

Q. A....... Is a base unit to which another morphological piece is attached?

Stem · prefix · suffix · word · Q. which of the following is the functional word · noun · verb · adjective · determiner

Q. in which period during the children native like competence

Childhood · adlocense · adult critical period

Q. Normally we can spot an adverb by the fact that they have is - LY

Q. Set on words one uses in Language production is ACTIVE vocabulary

Q. Which one is functional category word DETERMINER

Q. An example of SEMANTIC change is that the present day liquor is no longer liquid

Q. In syntax, the person undergoes the activity or action is termed as AGENT

Q. Multiple meaning words are POLYSEMY

Q. separate endocentric compound

Endocentric compounds Exocentric compounds jackknife funny farm board game lazybones bluebird loony bin high chair scarecrow sailboat pickpocket Q. Example of root compounding

Call a NN compound like hairnet or mosquito net, in which the right-hand noun is not derived from a verb and whose interpretation is therefore not precisely predictable on a purely linguistic basis, a primary or root compound.

Q. Point out agent and predicate compliment in sentence John smokes cigrate

1. John (agent)
2. Smokes (predicate)
3. Cigarette (predicate)

Q. Make plural of (datum , formula and cactus)

Plural

Singular

Data Datum Cactuses or cacti Cactus Formulas formulae Q. why children over extend the words tree/plants

Overextend tree by using it to refer to potted plants, trees, and even balsam fir wreaths. Such underand overextensions are generally short-lived, which indicates that children revise lexical entries as they are exposed to more and more tokens of a word.

Q. what plural markers should we expect the English speakers will add in the following novel words

1. Argaz Argazzes
2. Smick: Smicks
3. Brox: Broxes

Q. Distinguish between content and function words. Or Separate the content words from this list

Content Words Function Words Nouns: baby, bargain , Josianne Pronouns: I , him , our Verbs: publicize , hurtle , sleep Verbs: am , was , should Adjectives: peaceful , quick , bright Adverbs: readily , carefully, baby, publicize, sleep Demonstratives: this , those Adverbs:3 very , not Prepositions: in , by

Q. defines the term exocentricity in the content of morphology.

Exocentric construction cannot be substituted for any of its element and thus has no head. For Example: Is not an expansion of with a or paper. Not an expansion of any of its parts. An exocentric construction cannot be substituted for any of its element and thus has no head.

Q. Explain linguistic junk

Rudes (1980) and Lass (1990) have both raised the question of what to do with “linguistic leftovers” or “linguistic junk” (Lass’s term). In both cases, it has to do with morphemes that lose their semantic content or morphosyntactic function as a result of language change and are left as content less, functionless strings of phonemes floating around in the system. They show that languages are in general intolerant of useless elements, and speakers reanalyze them as having a new role. Lass call this process lingic exaptation, extending a term of evolutionary biology to the study of lang change.

Q. Define Polosemey (3)

The most fundamental aspect of a word’s meaning is that it refers to some entity or relation (realor imaginary) in the world. We can refer to this entity or relation as the word’s semantic type. Formal approaches to grammar have provided us with terminology that allows us to make