Basic Linguistics

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1. Firstly, to which of these language groups does English belong? Romance Germanic Slavonic Baltic

2. In the sentence 'I took my big brown cat to the vet yesterday', which of the following does not appear? Adjective Preposition Adverb Conjunction

3. True or false: English has no inflections for grammatical case. True False

4. What is defined as 'the study of sentence structure'? Semantics Morphology Syntax Phonology

5. Three of these languages do not have definite articles. Which one does have a structure that serves the purpose of a definite article? Russian Finnish Latin Swedish

6. In dialectology, what is the line on a map called which divides areas with different forms of a word? Isogloss Isotherm Isobar Isomer

7. The sounds of a language change over time. English spelling does not always reflect this change: how was the 'gh' in 'night' originally pronounced? Like German 'ch' in 'ich', but voiced Like English 'ch' in 'church' Like English 'y' in 'yellow' Like German 'ch' in 'ich'

8. Which of these words describes the changing of the form of a verb in order to reflect person, number, tense and mood? Declension Inversion Subordination Conjugation

9. The combination of sounds 'ms-' is not acceptable as the beginning of a word or syllable in English. In which of these languages is it acceptable? Russian Finnish French Dutch

10. And finally... Old Norse is almost the same as which modern Scandinavian language? Norwegian Icelandic Swedish Danish