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Introduction:
"I present to you some rather challenging queries on the world of linguistics...good luck!"


1. Who was considered the 'Father of Linguistic', a Swiss guy, who authored the seminal book entitled 'Course in General Linguistics'?
    William James
    Noam Chomsky
    Leonard Bloomfield
    Ferdinand de Saussure


2. What is the name of the linguistic school, which attempted to uncover 'Discovery Procedures'; that are internally imbedded, and compose the underlying units of language?
    deconstructionists
    phenomenologist
    structuralists
    transfomationalists


3. Since language is arbitrary, but contain 'Permitted Moves'...what term best describes the system of this communicational system?
    managed
    games
    structured
    deviant


4. What three components, generally, make up a system of a typical language?
    semiosis syntax frames
    phonology syntax semantics
    frames semantics utterances
    sign sign signs


5. What is the smallest segment of sound, that comprises the basic building blocks of a language?
    morphemes
    phonemes
    metamemes
    teramemes


6. What is the term for unchanging, gliding vowels; which can be either consonant-based or vowel-based?
    complementary pairs
    variations
    diphthongs
    morpheme pairs


7. The morpheme is the smallest syntactical unit. How many morphemes would the word 'antidisestablishmentarianism' have?
    5
    1
    6
    7


8. Which of the following is not a breed of Morpheme, found in most languages?
    derivational
    inflectional
    free
    strange


9. What are the 2 main structures, found when deconstructing a sentence into a tree-diagram?
    s prepostions
    np vp
    verb clause and prepositonals
    determiners and deictics


10. After, we analyze the syntactical order and construction, and find it worthy of our 'Permitted moves', does it mean that it will convey an idea cogently to us?
    Yes
    No


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