Linguistics Quiz

Language typology divides languages into (1 Point)

• language types.

• language branches.

Linguistics is ……

• the study of human language.

• the study of one's own language.

• the study of literary texts.

Match Jacob Grimm with one of the following options:

• historical grammar - Germanic Sound Shift

• revolutionary observation that Latin, Greek and Sanskrit are similar

• father of comparative grammar

Match August Schleicher with one of the following options: (1 Point)

• genealogical relationships - language family trees.

• language reflects the national Geist.

• revolutionary observation that Latin, Greek and Sanskrit are similar.

………. is study of word structure. (1 Point)

• morphology

• phonology

• lexicology

Each language spoken in Europe is an Indo-European language.

• yes

• no

From the perspective of number of cases, Polish belongs to …. type. (1 Point)

• 6-7 case categories

• no morphological case-marking

• 4 case categories

Index of fusion asks (1 Point)

• how do morphemes usually build a word?

• how many morphemes are there in a word?

Onomatopoetic words are the same in every language, because they are universal. (1 Point)

• False

• True

English is a language with …….. syllable structure. (1 Point)

• complex

• simple

• moderately complex