The document is an admission test for an MPhil program in Linguistics and Phonetics. It contains instructions for the test, which has six sections (A-F). Section C contains compulsory short answer questions to be answered directly on the paper. The other sections require longer answers to be written in a separate answer booklet. Sections A, B, D, E, and F each contain multiple choice questions to be answered, choosing no more than two from each section.
1. The document discusses Transformational Generative Grammar, which is a theory of grammar developed by Noam Chomsky that uses transformations to relate deep and surface structures of sentences.
2. It defines key concepts of transformational grammar like deep structure, surface structure, and transformations. Deep structure is the underlying form of a sentence before rules are applied, and surface structure is the final spoken/heard form.
3. Examples of transformations provided include passive, extraposition, and various focusing transformations like end-focus that place important information at the end of sentences.
This document provides an overview of norm and deviation in stylistics. It discusses how deviation occurs when something departs from an established norm or convention. Deviations can happen at various linguistic levels, such as phonological, syntactic, or semantic levels. The document also categorizes different types of deviations, such as discourse deviation, semantic deviation, lexical deviation, and morphological deviation. It explains norms as regulators that control linguistic variants and how norms allow for flexible fluctuations in language.
Functional linguistics claims that language use is functional, with the main function being to make meanings. These meanings are influenced by social and cultural context. Language use involves a semiotic process of choosing meanings. Jakobson identifies six communication functions associated with the communication process: referential, aesthetic, emotive, conative, phatic, and metalingual. Halliday sees language as a social/cultural phenomenon. He identifies seven functions language serves for children: instrumental, regulatory, interactional, personal, heuristic, imaginative, and representational. Systemic functional linguistics analyzes language in terms of context, semantics, lexico-grammar, and phonology-graphology. It sees three types of meanings encoded simultaneously
Long Day's Journey Into Night as Tragedy Latta Baraiya
This document provides an analysis of Eugene O'Neill's play "Long Day's Journey into Night" and whether it can be considered a tragedy or modern tragedy. It discusses the play's semi-autobiographical nature and basic plot. Key elements of tragedy according to Aristotle are described such as hamartia, or tragic flaw. The document analyzes the flawed characters in the play and whether it meets the criteria of a tragedy in having protagonists with flaws that bring about their downfall. While missing a single protagonist, the play explores themes of tragedy through a dysfunctional family and leaves the resolution ambiguous, making it considered a modern tragedy.
This document provides an introduction to stylistics as a branch of linguistics. It defines key concepts such as style, defines stylistics as the scientific study of styles of language use, and outlines the main levels of linguistic description used in stylistic analysis such as phonology, lexis, syntax and semantics. It also discusses the scope of stylistics in literary versus general texts and its development over time.
This document outlines different levels of stylistic analysis for examining written works, including graphology, phonology, grammar, lexical analysis, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis. It provides examples of features analyzed at each level, such as rhyme schemes, punctuation, parts of speech, inferences, and repetitions. The document also discusses word frequency analysis and lists common literary devices and techniques.
The document discusses the pedagogical aspects and advantages of using a stylistic approach to teaching literature at the college level. A stylistic approach teaches students how language is used in literature and how meanings are made through language features. Adopting this approach would help students understand the role of language in literature and analyze unique aspects of different literary works. It also presents language in context and exposes students to complex vocabulary, syntax, and figurative language.
1. The document discusses Transformational Generative Grammar, which is a theory of grammar developed by Noam Chomsky that uses transformations to relate deep and surface structures of sentences.
2. It defines key concepts of transformational grammar like deep structure, surface structure, and transformations. Deep structure is the underlying form of a sentence before rules are applied, and surface structure is the final spoken/heard form.
3. Examples of transformations provided include passive, extraposition, and various focusing transformations like end-focus that place important information at the end of sentences.
This document provides an overview of norm and deviation in stylistics. It discusses how deviation occurs when something departs from an established norm or convention. Deviations can happen at various linguistic levels, such as phonological, syntactic, or semantic levels. The document also categorizes different types of deviations, such as discourse deviation, semantic deviation, lexical deviation, and morphological deviation. It explains norms as regulators that control linguistic variants and how norms allow for flexible fluctuations in language.
Functional linguistics claims that language use is functional, with the main function being to make meanings. These meanings are influenced by social and cultural context. Language use involves a semiotic process of choosing meanings. Jakobson identifies six communication functions associated with the communication process: referential, aesthetic, emotive, conative, phatic, and metalingual. Halliday sees language as a social/cultural phenomenon. He identifies seven functions language serves for children: instrumental, regulatory, interactional, personal, heuristic, imaginative, and representational. Systemic functional linguistics analyzes language in terms of context, semantics, lexico-grammar, and phonology-graphology. It sees three types of meanings encoded simultaneously
Long Day's Journey Into Night as Tragedy Latta Baraiya
This document provides an analysis of Eugene O'Neill's play "Long Day's Journey into Night" and whether it can be considered a tragedy or modern tragedy. It discusses the play's semi-autobiographical nature and basic plot. Key elements of tragedy according to Aristotle are described such as hamartia, or tragic flaw. The document analyzes the flawed characters in the play and whether it meets the criteria of a tragedy in having protagonists with flaws that bring about their downfall. While missing a single protagonist, the play explores themes of tragedy through a dysfunctional family and leaves the resolution ambiguous, making it considered a modern tragedy.
This document provides an introduction to stylistics as a branch of linguistics. It defines key concepts such as style, defines stylistics as the scientific study of styles of language use, and outlines the main levels of linguistic description used in stylistic analysis such as phonology, lexis, syntax and semantics. It also discusses the scope of stylistics in literary versus general texts and its development over time.
This document outlines different levels of stylistic analysis for examining written works, including graphology, phonology, grammar, lexical analysis, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis. It provides examples of features analyzed at each level, such as rhyme schemes, punctuation, parts of speech, inferences, and repetitions. The document also discusses word frequency analysis and lists common literary devices and techniques.
The document discusses the pedagogical aspects and advantages of using a stylistic approach to teaching literature at the college level. A stylistic approach teaches students how language is used in literature and how meanings are made through language features. Adopting this approach would help students understand the role of language in literature and analyze unique aspects of different literary works. It also presents language in context and exposes students to complex vocabulary, syntax, and figurative language.
grammaticality, deep & surface structure, and ambiguityDedew Deviarini
This document discusses English morphology and syntax. It covers several key topics:
1. What is syntax and syntactic structure, including parts of speech and phrase structure.
2. The difference between deep and surface structure, where deep structure is the underlying form and surface structure is the actual form after transformations.
3. Grammaticality, which refers to sentences that follow syntactic rules rather than other factors like meaning or truth.
4. Types of ambiguities, including lexical ambiguities due to ambiguous words, and structural ambiguities due to multiple possible syntactic trees.
This document provides an overview of critical discourse analysis (CDA). It discusses key principles of CDA, including how social and political issues are constructed through language use and how power relations are negotiated in discourse. The document also outlines how CDA explores the connections between language and social context, and how it examines issues like gender, ethnicity and ideology. Several methods of CDA are introduced, such as analyzing framing techniques, multimodality, and identity construction in texts. Criticisms of CDA are noted, as well as suggestions for expanding its analytical tools and approaches.
Mentalist and Behaviorist Theory of SLAWenlie Jean
Mentalist and behaviorist theories provide different perspectives on language acquisition. Behaviorists such as Skinner view it as operant conditioning through stimulus-response and reinforcement learning, while mentalists like Chomsky believe humans are born with an innate language acquisition device that allows them to unconsciously deduce and apply the rules of grammar. Both nature and nurture likely influence the process, with innate capacities developing based on environmental exposure and interactions.
1. Phrase structure rules specify the well-formed structures of sentences by defining how phrases are formed using categories like noun phrases (NP), verb phrases (VP), and prepositional phrases (PP).
2. A phrase structure tree must match these rules to be grammatical. For example, a simple sentence follows the rule S → NP VP, where a noun phrase is followed by a verb phrase.
3. The document outlines phrase structure rules for English including how noun phrases can be expanded to include optional adjectives and prepositional phrases, and verb phrases can include optional noun phrases and prepositional phrases.
The poet is moving into a room that was previously occupied by Mr Bleaney. Through observing the sparse furnishings, the poet draws conclusions about Bleaney's lonely and stagnant life. The room reflects Bleaney's isolation, as seen in the faded curtains and lack of personal possessions. By the end, the poet worries that he may be becoming like Bleaney over time, trapped in a solitary existence. The poem implies how our environments and circumstances shape our identities.
1. The document provides biographies of two Pakistani writers - Muneeza Shamsie and Tariq Rehman. It discusses their lives, careers, and contributions to Pakistani literature.
2. Muneeza Shamsie is a literary historian, editor, and journalist who has compiled several influential anthologies of Pakistani English literature. She has also written on the development of Pakistani English literature.
3. Tariq Rehman is a renowned Pakistani academic and writer who has produced significant research on Pakistani linguistics and literature. He has authored short story collections and books on sociolinguistics with a focus on Pakistan.
Transformational generative grammar is a theory of language developed by Noam Chomsky that uses rules called transformations to relate the deep structure and surface structure of sentences. The deep structure represents the core semantic relations, while the surface structure follows phonological form. Transformations map the deep structure onto the surface structure. There are different types of transformations like subject-verb inversion and subject-operator inversion. Transformational generative grammar analyzes language syntactically and semantically and can result in paraphrases or resolve ambiguities.
This document provides an overview of pidgins and creoles. It defines pidgins as contact languages that arise between distinct linguistic groups for communication, featuring reduced grammar and vocabulary. Creoles develop from pidgins when a new generation acquires the contact language as its native tongue, expanding its structure. The document outlines the processes of pidginization and creolization, and notes that creoles may decreolize over time to resemble the standard language. It provides examples of pidgins and creoles, and a model of their life cycle from jargon to creole and possible convergence with the standard form.
- Stylistics is the scientific study of style in written and oral texts through the examination of linguistic features like grammar, vocabulary, semantics, and phonology.
- It began in the 1950s and analyzes how these linguistic aspects influence readers' understanding and perception of texts.
- Early influential books and articles on stylistics applied linguistic analysis to literary criticism and focused on determining how language shapes readers' responses.
Systemic functional linguistics is developed by Michael Halliday (1985) with his Introduction to Functional Grammar based on the model of language as social semiotic resources.
People can use language resources to accomplish their purposes by expressing meanings in context.
FEEL FREE TO USE IT!
Systemic functional linguistics (SFL) views language as a social semiotic system used to exchange meanings in social contexts. SFL was developed by Michael Halliday to study the relationship between language and its functions in social settings. It treats grammar as a meaning-making resource and considers how language evolves under the pressure of functions it must serve in society. SFL analyzes language through three metafunctions - the ideational to express experience, the interpersonal to enact social relationships, and the textual to create coherent messages.
This document discusses language variation and dialects. It begins by explaining that language varies geographically from place to place, socially between groups, and contextually in different situations. It then defines the standard language or standard variety as the most accepted and prestigious form of a language, as defined by dictionaries and used in important domains like government and education.
The document provides examples of linguistic variation between dialects, such as different words used or pronunciations. It explains that a dialect is a regional or social variety of a language that differs in minor aspects like vocabulary and grammar. It also discusses dialect continua and isoglosses, which are lines that show where linguistic features change between dialects.
A semantic field refers to a set of words grouped by similar meanings that relate to a specific subject. It is a collection of related words used to describe a particular domain or topic. There are two main types of semantic fields - ordered fields, where the words are arranged in a specific sequence, and unordered fields with no fixed ordering. Semantic fields help build emotion in literature by providing subtle context clues and hints about upcoming events or ideas. A lexical field focuses more on how words affect each other in sentences, while a semantic field emphasizes the underlying meanings expressed by groups of words.
Discourse analysis (Linguistics Forms and Functions)Satya Permadi
The document discusses discourse analysis and the differences between spoken and written language. It summarizes that discourse analysis focuses on language beyond the sentence level. It notes that language serves both a transactional function of expressing content and an interactional function of expressing social relations and attitudes. While spoken and written language are related, they differ in form. The document analyzes in spoken language is based on natural language utterances rather than constructed examples, and involves discovering regularities in authentic data within a context.
The document provides a detailed summary of Bapsi Sidhwa's novel "The Ice Candy Man". It discusses the author, plot, characters, themes, and reviews of the novel. The major themes explored are the partition of India, dislocation, disintegration, and feminism. The novel is told from the perspective of the narrator, 8-year old Lenny, and focuses on the impact of communal violence on ordinary lives in Lahore before and after partition.
The document provides a step-by-step guide for analyzing the style and techniques used in a non-fiction text. It outlines key areas to examine such as the audience, theme, tone, emotion, diction, syntax, organization, perspective and more. Examples are given for each category to illustrate what to look for and how different writing choices can impact the overall style.
This document provides an analysis of the poem "I Died for Beauty" by Emily Dickinson at various linguistic levels. It defines stylistic analysis and outlines several levels of analysis including the phonological, grammatical, semantic, pragmatic, graphological, discourse, and lexical levels. For each level, it provides examples of linguistic features and concepts that could be analyzed such as stress, rhythm, denotation, implicature, punctuation, genres, and word types.
Pragmatics presentation presupposition prepared by Mr. Ijaz Ahmed MPhil Schol...Ijaz Ahmed
This presentation discusses presupposition in linguistics. It defines presupposition as an implicit assumption whose truth is taken for granted. There are several types of presuppositions including existential, factive, lexical, structural, non-factive, and counterfactual presuppositions. Examples are provided for each type from a short story. The presentation concludes that presuppositions are implicit assumptions speakers and listeners assume to make utterances appropriate in context.
1. The document summarizes a passage that discusses the dilemma faced by governments who want to improve welfare but find policies incur environmental risks for current and future generations, raising questions of intergenerational justice and relations.
2. It then provides an outline of the passage in point form and a 150-word summary that discusses issues like pollution, depletion of resources, long-term debts, and the need to consider effects of current policies on future generations.
3. The summary discusses the author's perspective on the linguistic conflict faced by post-colonial communities between English and indigenous languages, and different approaches like rejecting one language, appropriating elements of the second language, or finding new discourses through creative tension between languages
This document provides a guide for new students at EFLU with information about facilities, shops, and services near the university campus. It includes tips on getting hostel rooms, internet access, mobile networks, transportation options, medical services, banks, grocery stores, movie theaters, and places to buy computer accessories, food, and alcohol. Locations and directions to stores, restaurants, and entertainment venues are given to help new students navigate the area surrounding the EFLU campus.
grammaticality, deep & surface structure, and ambiguityDedew Deviarini
This document discusses English morphology and syntax. It covers several key topics:
1. What is syntax and syntactic structure, including parts of speech and phrase structure.
2. The difference between deep and surface structure, where deep structure is the underlying form and surface structure is the actual form after transformations.
3. Grammaticality, which refers to sentences that follow syntactic rules rather than other factors like meaning or truth.
4. Types of ambiguities, including lexical ambiguities due to ambiguous words, and structural ambiguities due to multiple possible syntactic trees.
This document provides an overview of critical discourse analysis (CDA). It discusses key principles of CDA, including how social and political issues are constructed through language use and how power relations are negotiated in discourse. The document also outlines how CDA explores the connections between language and social context, and how it examines issues like gender, ethnicity and ideology. Several methods of CDA are introduced, such as analyzing framing techniques, multimodality, and identity construction in texts. Criticisms of CDA are noted, as well as suggestions for expanding its analytical tools and approaches.
Mentalist and Behaviorist Theory of SLAWenlie Jean
Mentalist and behaviorist theories provide different perspectives on language acquisition. Behaviorists such as Skinner view it as operant conditioning through stimulus-response and reinforcement learning, while mentalists like Chomsky believe humans are born with an innate language acquisition device that allows them to unconsciously deduce and apply the rules of grammar. Both nature and nurture likely influence the process, with innate capacities developing based on environmental exposure and interactions.
1. Phrase structure rules specify the well-formed structures of sentences by defining how phrases are formed using categories like noun phrases (NP), verb phrases (VP), and prepositional phrases (PP).
2. A phrase structure tree must match these rules to be grammatical. For example, a simple sentence follows the rule S → NP VP, where a noun phrase is followed by a verb phrase.
3. The document outlines phrase structure rules for English including how noun phrases can be expanded to include optional adjectives and prepositional phrases, and verb phrases can include optional noun phrases and prepositional phrases.
The poet is moving into a room that was previously occupied by Mr Bleaney. Through observing the sparse furnishings, the poet draws conclusions about Bleaney's lonely and stagnant life. The room reflects Bleaney's isolation, as seen in the faded curtains and lack of personal possessions. By the end, the poet worries that he may be becoming like Bleaney over time, trapped in a solitary existence. The poem implies how our environments and circumstances shape our identities.
1. The document provides biographies of two Pakistani writers - Muneeza Shamsie and Tariq Rehman. It discusses their lives, careers, and contributions to Pakistani literature.
2. Muneeza Shamsie is a literary historian, editor, and journalist who has compiled several influential anthologies of Pakistani English literature. She has also written on the development of Pakistani English literature.
3. Tariq Rehman is a renowned Pakistani academic and writer who has produced significant research on Pakistani linguistics and literature. He has authored short story collections and books on sociolinguistics with a focus on Pakistan.
Transformational generative grammar is a theory of language developed by Noam Chomsky that uses rules called transformations to relate the deep structure and surface structure of sentences. The deep structure represents the core semantic relations, while the surface structure follows phonological form. Transformations map the deep structure onto the surface structure. There are different types of transformations like subject-verb inversion and subject-operator inversion. Transformational generative grammar analyzes language syntactically and semantically and can result in paraphrases or resolve ambiguities.
This document provides an overview of pidgins and creoles. It defines pidgins as contact languages that arise between distinct linguistic groups for communication, featuring reduced grammar and vocabulary. Creoles develop from pidgins when a new generation acquires the contact language as its native tongue, expanding its structure. The document outlines the processes of pidginization and creolization, and notes that creoles may decreolize over time to resemble the standard language. It provides examples of pidgins and creoles, and a model of their life cycle from jargon to creole and possible convergence with the standard form.
- Stylistics is the scientific study of style in written and oral texts through the examination of linguistic features like grammar, vocabulary, semantics, and phonology.
- It began in the 1950s and analyzes how these linguistic aspects influence readers' understanding and perception of texts.
- Early influential books and articles on stylistics applied linguistic analysis to literary criticism and focused on determining how language shapes readers' responses.
Systemic functional linguistics is developed by Michael Halliday (1985) with his Introduction to Functional Grammar based on the model of language as social semiotic resources.
People can use language resources to accomplish their purposes by expressing meanings in context.
FEEL FREE TO USE IT!
Systemic functional linguistics (SFL) views language as a social semiotic system used to exchange meanings in social contexts. SFL was developed by Michael Halliday to study the relationship between language and its functions in social settings. It treats grammar as a meaning-making resource and considers how language evolves under the pressure of functions it must serve in society. SFL analyzes language through three metafunctions - the ideational to express experience, the interpersonal to enact social relationships, and the textual to create coherent messages.
This document discusses language variation and dialects. It begins by explaining that language varies geographically from place to place, socially between groups, and contextually in different situations. It then defines the standard language or standard variety as the most accepted and prestigious form of a language, as defined by dictionaries and used in important domains like government and education.
The document provides examples of linguistic variation between dialects, such as different words used or pronunciations. It explains that a dialect is a regional or social variety of a language that differs in minor aspects like vocabulary and grammar. It also discusses dialect continua and isoglosses, which are lines that show where linguistic features change between dialects.
A semantic field refers to a set of words grouped by similar meanings that relate to a specific subject. It is a collection of related words used to describe a particular domain or topic. There are two main types of semantic fields - ordered fields, where the words are arranged in a specific sequence, and unordered fields with no fixed ordering. Semantic fields help build emotion in literature by providing subtle context clues and hints about upcoming events or ideas. A lexical field focuses more on how words affect each other in sentences, while a semantic field emphasizes the underlying meanings expressed by groups of words.
Discourse analysis (Linguistics Forms and Functions)Satya Permadi
The document discusses discourse analysis and the differences between spoken and written language. It summarizes that discourse analysis focuses on language beyond the sentence level. It notes that language serves both a transactional function of expressing content and an interactional function of expressing social relations and attitudes. While spoken and written language are related, they differ in form. The document analyzes in spoken language is based on natural language utterances rather than constructed examples, and involves discovering regularities in authentic data within a context.
The document provides a detailed summary of Bapsi Sidhwa's novel "The Ice Candy Man". It discusses the author, plot, characters, themes, and reviews of the novel. The major themes explored are the partition of India, dislocation, disintegration, and feminism. The novel is told from the perspective of the narrator, 8-year old Lenny, and focuses on the impact of communal violence on ordinary lives in Lahore before and after partition.
The document provides a step-by-step guide for analyzing the style and techniques used in a non-fiction text. It outlines key areas to examine such as the audience, theme, tone, emotion, diction, syntax, organization, perspective and more. Examples are given for each category to illustrate what to look for and how different writing choices can impact the overall style.
This document provides an analysis of the poem "I Died for Beauty" by Emily Dickinson at various linguistic levels. It defines stylistic analysis and outlines several levels of analysis including the phonological, grammatical, semantic, pragmatic, graphological, discourse, and lexical levels. For each level, it provides examples of linguistic features and concepts that could be analyzed such as stress, rhythm, denotation, implicature, punctuation, genres, and word types.
Pragmatics presentation presupposition prepared by Mr. Ijaz Ahmed MPhil Schol...Ijaz Ahmed
This presentation discusses presupposition in linguistics. It defines presupposition as an implicit assumption whose truth is taken for granted. There are several types of presuppositions including existential, factive, lexical, structural, non-factive, and counterfactual presuppositions. Examples are provided for each type from a short story. The presentation concludes that presuppositions are implicit assumptions speakers and listeners assume to make utterances appropriate in context.
1. The document summarizes a passage that discusses the dilemma faced by governments who want to improve welfare but find policies incur environmental risks for current and future generations, raising questions of intergenerational justice and relations.
2. It then provides an outline of the passage in point form and a 150-word summary that discusses issues like pollution, depletion of resources, long-term debts, and the need to consider effects of current policies on future generations.
3. The summary discusses the author's perspective on the linguistic conflict faced by post-colonial communities between English and indigenous languages, and different approaches like rejecting one language, appropriating elements of the second language, or finding new discourses through creative tension between languages
This document provides a guide for new students at EFLU with information about facilities, shops, and services near the university campus. It includes tips on getting hostel rooms, internet access, mobile networks, transportation options, medical services, banks, grocery stores, movie theaters, and places to buy computer accessories, food, and alcohol. Locations and directions to stores, restaurants, and entertainment venues are given to help new students navigate the area surrounding the EFLU campus.
Edward Said argues that literary criticism has become too focused on "textuality" and isolated from real world contexts and events. He believes criticism should be "secular" by acknowledging social and historical influences on texts. Said critiques how literary theory accepts "noninterference" and considers texts disconnected from specific times and places. Quoting Raymond Williams, Said says criticism belongs in potential spaces of alternative views within society, acting for human freedom against domination. The document outlines exam questions on these topics and the role of the critic.
The document provides answers to frequently asked questions about the BA (Honours) English program at EFL University. It discusses the following key details:
- Last year's entrance exam had a maximum of 90 marks and minimum of 65.5 marks to get in. It included an additional essay worth around 20 marks.
- The course structure is being revamped but previously had four papers each semester from English Language Education, Linguistics, and Literature, along with a Foreign Language requirement for the first four semesters.
- Students have classes from 9am-1pm and 3-5pm three days a week, with evening classes for foreign languages. The workload is described as light, allowing time for other
This document contains an entrance exam for admission to a 5-year integrated Master of Arts program in English. The exam has multiple choice questions and fill-in-the-blank exercises testing knowledge of grammar, vocabulary and a passage on the history and spread of the English language. It discusses how English became a global lingua franca but notes that people still rely on their native tongues for personal communication. The exam also contains a passage on the history of shaving and beards with errors to identify.
This document provides 1000 single-choice questions in English for high school students. It begins with sample questions in formats like fill-in-the-blank and sentence completion. The questions cover a range of English grammar topics like parts of speech, sentence structure, vocabulary in context. Each question is followed by 4 multiple choice answers. The document is 64 pages long and provides questions, answers and explanations to help students practice and test their English skills.
This document contains a serial test with two parts - Part A and Part B. Part A contains 9 short answer questions testing vocabulary, grammar, spelling and punctuation. Part B contains 2 long answer questions - the first being a comprehension passage followed by 6 true/false and 5 short answer questions; the second asks to write a letter. The test aims to assess students' language and comprehension skills over a range of topics in 90 minutes.
1. The document discusses an NBA star named Kobe Bryant who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. It provides details about his career accomplishments and records broken.
2. The 2016 Olympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the first time South America will host the games. Rio defeated Chicago, Tokyo, and Madrid for the right to host.
3. The passage talks about the Backstreet Boys releasing a new album called "This Is Us" and recommends listening to two songs on it. It discusses the band members and their career over the years.
This document provides a course outline for a Functional English course offered to BS and B.Com students. The course aims to provide students with strong English grammar and composition skills, as well as the ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
The course is divided into sections covering topics such as semantics, traditional and modern grammar, tenses, narration, structural words, and composition. Recommended textbooks are also listed. A sample exam paper is provided containing both subjective and objective questions testing understanding of course content.
(1) Akbar had three sons, but by 1608 only one, Salim, was still alive as the other two had died of opium and alcohol addiction. (2) Salim too had become fond of stimulants and subject to mood swings when under the influence of arrack and opium, and he led several revolts against his father from 1600-1605. (3) Akbar's mind turned to Salim's son Khusram as a potential successor, as by widespread comment Khusram had all the qualities required at only 18 years of age.
Title: Akbar's Succession Troubles and his Consideration of his Grandson Khusram
This document provides exercises related to advanced syntax concepts in English, including:
1) Drawing constituent structure trees for sample sentences based on a "toy grammar" of English
2) Drawing phrase structure trees for additional sentences
3) Translating bracketed syntactic representations into constituent structure trees
4) Analyzing possible syntactic structures and choosing the most plausible
5) Identifying meaningful and contradictory combinations of made-up adjective terms
The document provides instructions and content for a booklet on key skills including paraphrasing, reading comprehension, vocabulary, editing, and grammar exercises. It contains multiple sections with tasks like rewriting sentences from a provided text, answering questions about a passage, matching words to definitions, correcting errors in writing, and completing grammar activities. The document serves as a study guide and assessment tool for language learners.
The document provides a reading comprehension practice exercise for cognates in English and Spanish. It contains a brief introduction on reading comprehension strategies like context clues, synonyms, antonyms, and cognates. It then provides 10 paragraphs with unfinished sentences for students to draw conclusions based on the context. It also includes an additional practice exercise with indirect editing questions to identify errors in passages. The exercises are meant to help students prepare for college entrance exams by improving their reading comprehension abilities.
1. The document provides an exam for a third year secondary student in English as a foreign language. It covers language functions, vocabulary, structure, reading comprehension, and a novel study.
2. The reading comprehension passage discusses the impacts of meteorites on Earth, including a mass extinction event 65 million years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs.
3. The novel questions reference details about the main characters and their interactions in The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope.
This document contains an English exam for Intermediate Part 1 consisting of objective and subjective questions testing comprehension of short stories, poems, and plays from the student's textbook. The objective questions cover topics like identifying correct answers, verbs, prepositions, and synonyms. The subjective questions require 3-4 sentence answers to questions about the stories, plays, and poems discussed in the textbook. The exam also includes composition questions asking the student to write a letter, story, or paragraph on provided prompts.
This document appears to be a practice exam for students majoring in English at Ulaanbaatar University. It contains multiple choice and short answer questions testing syntax and parts of speech. The exam is divided into 9 sections with a total of 50 possible points. It tests identification of parts of speech, analysis of sentence structures, identification of verb types, filling in blanks with verbs, and identifying phrases and clauses. The exam is approved and intended for third year English major students to assess their knowledge of syntax.
The document provides a table specifying the contents, importance, and number of items for a test of English language communication skills (module: written expression). It will evaluate vocabulary, grammar, expressions, and texts. Candidates must correctly answer 12 of 24 total questions to pass. The test instructions inform examinees they will have 45 minutes to complete it using a blue or black pen.
This document provides a table of specifications for an English language proficiency exam. It lists the content areas being tested, their importance, and the number of questions in each section. The content areas include vocabulary, grammar, expressions, and texts. There will be a total of 24 multiple choice questions testing these areas.
The document contains a practice worksheet for an 8th grade exam with various questions testing grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and matching in English. It includes exercises like filling in blanks with verbs in past continuous tense, choosing the correct option to complete sentences, and matching dates to historical events. The worksheet aims to prepare students for an exam through different question types assessing diverse English language skills.
This document contains an English language assessment for a student. It includes several parts that assess different English language skills:
1. It has sentences for the student to complete using future tense verbs like "will" and "won't."
2. There is a matching activity where the student must match sentences to the activities people were doing.
3. There are two short texts about a person's daily schedule and a story about a student showing his report card. These include comprehension questions about the texts.
4. Other activities assess skills like choosing the best question for an answer, making predictions based on a description, identifying true/false statements, and matching vocabulary words to their meanings.
This document provides a summary of punctuation marks in English and common errors in using them. It discusses the following punctuation marks: full stop (period), comma, question mark, exclamation mark, apostrophe, colon, brackets (parentheses), semicolon, quotation marks, and dash. For each punctuation mark, it provides examples of correct usage. It also lists three common errors in using punctuation: incorrectly placing sentence punctuation inside quotation marks; using a comma instead of a period; and incorrectly placing punctuation outside of quotation marks. The purpose is to help readers properly understand and use punctuation in English.
This document contains a model question paper for an English exam with 3 main sections:
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Entrance test m phil linguistics and phonetics www.efluniversity.ac.in model question paper the
1. Admit Pass No.
Entrance Tests 2008
M Phil (Linguistics and Phonetics)
Time: 3 hours Max. Marks 110
Notes and Instructions
1. The question paper has six sections (A,B,C,D,E and F)
2. All questions in Section C are compulsory. Answer them on the question paper
itself. (Section C carries 20 marks)
3. Answer six questions in all from the other five Sections (i.e. A,B,D,E, and F),
choosing not more than two from any Section. Use the answer book provided to
answer these questions.
4. Answer the questions in each Section together.
5. After you complete the test, hand in the entire question paper along with the answer
book.
Section A
I. Give the derivation of the following sentences (as per Chomsky 1981). For each
sentence provide a D- Structure representation and an S- Structure representation,
and discuss the assignment of theta roles and case. (15)
1. The trial is expected early next month.
2. Bill appears to have left.
3. John is likely to be invited to the party.
II. Determine the antecedents of the anaphors in the following. Show how the
occurrence of the anaphors is consistent with the relevant binding principles. (15)
1. She is believed to have nominated herself.
2. They seemed to like each other’s comments.
3. Bill promised Lucy to behave himself.
III. Account for the ungrammaticality of the following sentences. (15)
1.*Who do they think that will arrive first?
2.*Who did John make the claim that he saw last week?
3.*Which man do you wonder when will invite Mary?
2. Section B
IV. Examine the English data below and answer the questions. (15)
Set 1
i. inability ii. inefficient iii. inescapable iv. inert
vi. inaction
a. Identify the prefix, its meaning and write the Word Formation Rule that
describes the data.
b. Identify the odd word in Set 1 above and explain why it is different from the
other words in the Set.
Set 2
i. impossible ii. imbalance iii. immobile iv. invalid
c. Describe the changes (if any) that occur in the prefix using distinctive
features.
Set 3
i. innocuous ii. illegal iii. irreverence iv. illogical
d. Describe the changes that occur in the shape of the prefix using distinctive
features.
e. Do the generalizations you have made so far account for the words ‘impotent’
and ‘impair’? Why/Why not?
V. Examine the Slovak data below and answers the questions. (15)
Set 1
i. krik ‘shout’ ii. kura ‘chicken iii. kri:k ‘bush’
iv. ku:ra ‘cure’ v. rad ‘row’ vi. gra:d degree’
a. Is vowel length distinctive in this language? Why?
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3. Set 2
Nom.sg Gen.pl
i. piv + ɔ pi:v ‘beer’
ii. put + ɔ pu:t ‘chain’
iii. lan + ɔ la:n ‘cable’
Noun Diminutive
iv. znak zna:tʃ +ik ‘sign’
v. puk pu:tʃ + ik ‘bud’
b. Write a rule to account for the stem vowel alternation in the data above
specifying the morphological environments (if required).
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4. c. Write a rule (using distinctive features) to account for the stem final
consonant alternation.
Set 3
Neuter Nouns
Nom.sg Nom.pl Dat.pl. Loc.pl. Gloss
i. lan + ɔ lan + a: lan + a:m lan + a:ch ‘cable’
ii. sta:d + ɔ sta:d + a sta:d + am sta:d + ach ‘herd’
iii. tʃi:sl + ɔ tʃi:sk + a tʃi:sl + am tʃi:sl + ach ‘number’
Nom.sg. Agentive
iv. hut +a hut + ni:k ‘steel works’
v. monta:ʒ monta:ʒ +nik ‘assembling’
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5. vi. tʃalu:n tʃalu:n +nik ‘wallpaper’
d. Write a rule to account for the vowel alternation in the suffixes.
e. Describe informally the pattern of vowel alternations in the stem and
the suffixes.
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6. VI. Examine the data below from Sudanese Arabic and answer the questions:
(15)
Set 1
i. ¹bana ‘he built’ ii. ¹?akal ‘he ate’ iii. ?a¹guul ‘I say’
iv. ¹?aakul ‘I eat’ v. baa¹been ‘two doors’ vi. ¹maktab ‘office’
a. Syllabify the words in i, v and vi.
b. When are final syllables stressed in disyllables?
Set 2
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7. i. ?a¹kalna ‘we ate’ ii. ¹katabu ‘they wrote’
iii. ¹katabat ‘she wrote’ v. jama¹leen ‘two camels
v. masaa¹kiin ‘poor (pl)’ vi. hamma¹liin ‘parters’
vii. makta¹been ‘library’ viii.¹tarjamu ‘he translated’
ix. tar¹jamna ‘we translated’
c. When are final syllables stressed in trisyllables?
d. When are penult syllables stressed in trisyllables?
e. How many types of syllables occur word finally?
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8. f. How many types of syllables occur elsewhere?
g. Make a single statement regarding stress placement in this variety of
Arabic.
h. Where would the stress fall on a word like jamalna ‘our camel’ and
jamalak ‘your camel’? Why?
i. Is the stress on the word [ja¹mala] ‘her camel’ problematic for your
analysis? Why/Why not?
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9. Admit Pass No.
Section C
(Note: Answers to be written in the space given.)
VII. Rearrange the following sentences in proper, coherent order. Use the space
provided below to indicate the order in which you think they should occur.
Organize the sentences in two paragraphs. Do not write the sentences again. (10)
a. Please would you allow Prem and I to go for a movie?
b. India may have won the match had they not gone and dropped 2 catches.
c. It’s one of the most unique monuments in Hyderabad
d. Neither fire nor flood are ever likely to stop him on a journey
e. This is one of the those problems that really is difficult to solve.
f. Like most small cars, I find the new Santro driver excellently on rough
surfaces.
g. They asked if I were going with them.
h. Preeti hardly knew no one at the meeting.
i. The Rajadhani Express now a days goes directly to Bangalore.
j. You should have tried to have tried to have let me know at once.
The order should be
Paragraph 1: Sentence numbers ……………………………………………………
Paragraph 2: Sentence numbers ……………………………………………………
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10. IX. Say whether each of the following sentences is acceptable or not. Give an
acceptable version wherever you disapprove of the grammar/usage (not the content)
of the sentence given. (10)
1. When asked to explain Britain’s wartime policy, Prime Minister Winston
Churchill responded with these monosyllables: “It is to wage war by sea, land
and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us.”
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2. Short words are as good as long ones, and short, old words like sun, grass and
home are best of all.
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3. Make them the spine and the heart of what you speak and write.
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4. When you speak and write, no law says that you have to use big words.
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5. For centuries the finest poets and orators have recognized the power of small
words.
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6. A lot of small words, more than you might think, can meet your needs with a
strength, grace and charm that large words lack.
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11. 7. So use them wherever you can.
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8. In fact, one study shows that 11 words account for 25% of all spoken English
and all 11 are monosyllable.
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9. You don’t have to be a great author or statesman to tap the energy and
eloquence of small words.
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10. The above paragraph is composed entirely of words of one syllable.
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Section D
IX. Mark the primary stress in the following words: (15)
a. conjecture f. gazette
b. hostility g. communication
c. shipwreck h. performance
d. characterize I. alcoholic
e. appointment j. demonstrate
X. Underline the tonic syllable in the following sentences, based on the context given.
An example has been provided: (15)
e.g. I haven’t got a credit card.
i) Why are you paying in cash?
I haven’t got a credit card.
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12. ii) You can pay by a credit card.
I haven’t got a credit card.
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13. I’m a graphic designer.
1. What kind of a designer are you?
____________________________________________
What do you do?
____________________________________________
2. I like jazz and classical.
1. What kind of music do you like?
___________________________________________
2. Which do you prefer, jazz or classical?
___________________________________________
3. Is your seat 29F?
1. She is not sure she heard the number correctly.
___________________________________________
2. She is not sure she heard the letter
correctly.___________________________________________
4. Is that your phone?
1. He can see somebody’s mobile phone on the seat.
____________________________________________
2. He can hear an electronic sound from someone’s pocket.
5. Yes, two brothers.
1. You have some brothers, don’t you?
____________________________________________
2. Do you have any brothers or sisters?
_____________________________________________
XI Complete the following statements in one or more words: (15)
a) V.O.T. refers to ____________________________.
b) [ τ=♦ 8εΙ)ν ] is an example of _______________________transcription.
c) / λ / is realized as a _____________ lateral before vowels.
d) The primary accent is placed on the ___________syllable in a compound
word like groundnut.
e) Varieties of a language which differ in respect of grammar, vocabulary and
pronunciation are called _____________.
f) / ϕ / and / ω / are also called ___________.
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14. g) In a sentence, the secondary accent without _________________ may be
manifested by qualitative, quantitative or rhythmic prominence.
h) A brief period of voicelessness during and immediately after the release of an
articulatory stricture is called ______________.
i) The glottalic egressive airstream mechanism is used to produce
____________.
j) In an elliptical question to indicate ‘surprise’, a ___________tone is used.
Section E
XII. a) Briefly explain the difference between the R.P. (Received Pronunciation) and
‘Standard British English’ (5)
b) Explain and illustrate the relationships between bilingualism and diglossia for
the following contexts: (10)
i) Both diglossia and bilingualism
ii) Diglossia without bilingualism
XIII. a) “The work of William Labov is usually regarded as setting the pattern for
studies of linguistic variation…… One of his first major studies of linguistic
variation was an investigation of the ( r ) variable in New York City
(Labov,1966)” (Wardhaugh 1986). Discuss the concept of linguistic variation
with reference to the above statement.
OR
b) Prepare a questionnaire to study language attitudes towards the mother tongue
and English in a city in India (15)
XIV. a) You are given four options for each of the following statements. Tick the
correct option. (10x1 =10)
i) Language usually refers to
a) the dialect used by most of the people
b) the standard dialect
c) the dialect of a particular area
d) none of the above
ii) According to Ferguson, literature in a diglossic community is written in
a) the low variety
b) the high variety
c) both the low and high varieties
d) none of the above
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15. iii) A Creole is a language
a) which is used by the colonizer
b) which has several native speakers
c) which has no native speakers
d) none of the above
vi) English in India is used in High domains by
a) standard speakers in English
b) ambilinguals
c) the speakers at the centre point on the cline of bilingualism
d) none of the above
v) According to Fishman,’Home’ and ‘Place of work’ are called
a) role-relationships
b) topics
c) domains
d) locales
vi) It is accepted that women in comparison to men generally use
a) a prestigious dialect
b) a non-prestigious dialect
c) a lower - class dialect
d) none of the above
vii) When one studies linguistic variation in a society, one studies the
speech of
a) only the middle class
b) middle and upper class
c) all the classes
d) only the lower class
viii) The matched –guise technique is used to study
a) language attitudes
b) language use
c) linguistic variation
d) none of the above
ix) A flight attendant en route from London to Hong Kong makes an
announcement in English first and then in Chinese. This is an example of
a) code switching
b) code-mixing
c) both code-switching and mixing
d) none of the above
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16. x) Diglossia is considered to be
a) a societal choice
b) an individual’s choice
c) a choice according to gender
d) a choice according to class
b) List with examples the syntactic features of Indian English. Briefly explain the
differences between the syntactic features of Indian English and Standard
British English. (5)
Section F
XVI. a) Briefly explain the term ‘universe of discourse’ ? Illustrate your answer. (5)
b) Briefly explain the term ‘utterance ‘. Illustrate your answer. (5)
c) What do you understand by the concept of ‘predicate’ in Semantics?
Illustrate your answer. (5)
XVII. a) Explain and illustrate the term’binary antonymy’ (2)
b) Explain and illustrate the term ‘gradable antonyms’ (2)
c) Explain and illustrate the term ‘homonymy’ (2)
d) What is the difference between ‘perlocutionary’ and ‘illocutionary’ acts ? (4)
e) In each of the following sentences identify the participant roles (5)
i. The teacher moved the book with a stick
ii. I saw Sunita at the railway station
iii. Lucknow is very hot in summer
iv. This book was published in 2001
v. Reema gave Mohit a book
XVIII. a) Translate the following into logical notation. (10)
i) Bush met Edward and Rita
ii) Vanita went to Delhi and she met Manish
iii) Karan will take Anita or Madhu and Sonali
iv) Either David and Elizabeth is a teacher
v) Kunal and Edward are British
b) What is an illocutionary act? Illustrate your answer. (5)
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