Syntactic Categories Quiz

What does Professor Gisa Rauh survey in her work?

• A wide range of linguistic theories

• Only one linguistic theory

• Historical linguistics

• Pragmatics

Who is the general editor of the series?

• Gisa Rauh

• Robert D. Van Valin, Jr

• Hans Thilo Tappe

• Colin Foskett

What is the main focus of the book?

• Syntax and morphology

• Phonetics

• Sociolinguistics

• Language acquisition

According to Haspelmath, what terms are considered equivalent or roughly equivalent?

• word class

• part of speech

• syntactic category

• lexical category

What does Bloomfield say about the relationship between parts of speech and word classes?

• They are identical.

• They are not identical.

• They are synonyms.

• They are interchangeable.

What is Sasse's view on the synonymy of 'part of speech' and 'word class'?

• They are synonyms.

• They are not synonyms.

• They are different categories.

• They are the same.

How do linguists contrast lexical categories with functional categories?

• Lexical categories include nouns and verbs.

• Functional categories include determiners and pronouns.

• Lexical categories are more fundamental.

• Functional categories are less important.

What is the definition of 'form-class' according to Lyons?

• Two forms are members of the same form-class if they are intersubstitutable.

• Form-classes are based on morphological categories.

• Form-classes are the same as parts of speech.

• Form-classes do not include syntactic categories.