3rd Year Linguistics Revision
I. Indicate whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE and correct the false ones.
1. Formal linguistics includes the study of phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology and semantics.
2. Synchronic linguistics studies the way a language changes over time.
3. Etymology is the study and analysis of the origins and relatedness of different languages.
4. Auditory phonetics deals with how speech sounds are produced by use of the organs of speech.
5. Several of the subfields of linor'-"- with the major components of lai,,
6. The relation between a linguistic sign and its meaning is arbitrary.
7. Phonology studies the production, perception and physical properties of speech sounds.
8. Syntax is concern ' study_ the structure of phrases, clauses and sentences.
9. Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics which is concerned with the study of the relationship between language and society.
10. The branch of linguistics which studies the structure of words is called syntax.
11. An inflectional morpheme can be a prefix or a suffix.
12. An inflectional morpheme serves to derive a word of one class from another word of another class.
13. Derivation is taking a word from one language and incorporating it into another.
14. An acronym is a word formed from initial letters of a few words in a phrase or a name.
15. Blending is a process in which two different words are joined together to denote one thing.
16. Bound morphemes always attach to oth -lies, never existing as words themselves.
17. A prefix is an affix that attaches to the end of a stem.
18. Derivational morphemes serve purely rascal function, never creating a new word but only the same word.