Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. What is language? What are its chief characteristics? Discuss.
2. Critically examin sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics as branches of linguistics.
3. How does morphology help us to understand the structural analysis of words? Give your understanding of the topic.
4. Write a detailed note on historical linguistics.
5. (a) What is phrase structure grammar? Discuss its major flaws. (20)
(b) Draw a tree diagram for the following sentence giving P-Marker:
Ali was reading the letter to the class yesterday. (05)
6. What is semantic field theory? How does it differ from componential analysis?
7. Write notes on TWO of the following:
(i) Stylistics
(ii) Code Switching
(iii) Descriptive vs. Pescriptive Linguistics
(iv) Bilingualism
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