Linguistics - Past Papers - MA English Literature - Part 2 - Sargodha University

byAsad Imran Shah •
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Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Total Marks: 100
Passing Marks: 40 (As of 2020)
Note: Objective part is compulsory. Attempt any four questions from the subjective part.

2022 IIA

Short Questions

  1. Give one definition of language given by any linguistics.
  2. What makes Linguistics Science?
  3. What iS Sociolect?
  4. What is a Phoneme?
  5. What is Applied Linguistics?
  6. What is Psycholinguistics?
  7. Define Phonetics.
  8. Define Affixation.
  9. Differentiate between Inflectional Morphology and Derivational Morphology.
  10. What is an allophone?

Long Questions

  1. Language is unique to human beings. Comment.
  2. Language can be studied at different levels, identify different levels of linguistic analysis.
  3. What is a standard dialect? Is it a natural or artificial phenomenon? Discuss the process standardization of a dialect.
  4. Write note on foregrounding in literature. Substantiate your answer with examples.
  5. Write a comprehensive note on English syllable structure.
  6. What is grammar? Give a brief detail of Transformational Generative grammar,

2022

Short Questions

  1. Define Linguistic competence.
  2. What do you know about arbitrariness of language?
  3. Define Diachronic Linguistics.
  4. Define Idiolect with example.
  5. Differentiate between Phonetics and Phonology.
  6. Define allomorph.
  7. What is Lingua Franca? Also tell Lingua Franca of Pakistan.
  8. Give two examples of Diphthong.
  9. Define Diction.
  10. What is Aphasia?

Long Questions

  1. What do you know about Universal Grammar? What arguments did Chomsky provide for Universal Grammar?
  2. "Both Linguistic meaning and Linguistic information are inherently relational concepts". Discuss.
  3. How do you differentiate the manner of articulation and the place of articulation?
  4. What do you know about levels of Linguistic analysis? Support your answer with examples.
  5. What distinguishes human language from other animal communication systems? What features are common among human language and animal communication systems?
  6. What are different semantic theories? Write a comprehensive note.

2021

Short Questions

  1. Define Syllable.
  2. How is vowel different from consonant?
  3. Who propounded Theory of Speech Acts?
  4. What are paradigmatic relations in language?
  5. What are syntagmatic relations in language?
  6. What is synchronic study of language?
  7. What is diachronic study of language?
  8. What is macro-linguistics?
  9. How does Chomsky define language?
  10. Who wrote Course in General Linguistics?

Long Questions

  1. What is Language? Give a critical analysis of at least four definitions by some renowned linguists.
  2. Give a comparative analysis of human language and animal communication systems
  3. What is Stylistics? Write a detailed note on foregrounding?
  4. Write a comprehensive note on the Macro and Micro-Linguistics.
  5. How are traditional approaches to language different from linguistics?
  6. Write a comprehensive note on Generative School of Linguistics.

2020

Short Questions

  1. Give one definition of language given by any linguistics.
  2. What of features of scientific study?
  3. What is Comparative Linguistics?
  4. Differentiate between Langue and Parole.
  5. What is a Dialect?
  6. What is a Sociolect?
  7. What is a Phoneme?
  8. What is Applied Linguistics?
  9. What is Competence?
  10. What is Psycholinguistics?

Long Questions

  1. Comment on the scope of Linguistics.
  2. Write a detailed note on the Design Features of human language.
  3. Literature attracts us for two contradictory reasons (Widdowson), comment.
  4. What are human speech organs? Discuss the role played by them in the production of speech.
  5. Write a comprehensive note on the branches of Linguistics.
  6. Write a detailed note on the theories of the origin of language.

2019

Short Questions

  1. What are the components of a Syllable?
  2. What is a vowel?
  3. Define Speech Act.
  4. Define Langue.
  5. What is Segmental Phonology?
  6. What is Articulatory Phonetics?
  7. What is Acoustic Phonetics?
  8. What is micro-linguistics?
  9. Who wrote Syntactic Structures?
  10. Who wrote Course in General Linguistics?

Long Questions

  1. what is Language? Give a critical analysis of at least four definitions by some renowned linguists.
  2. Write a critical note on the Design Features of Human Language.
  3. What is Stylistics? Write a detailed note on the scope of Stylistics.
  4. Write a comprehensive note on the Macro and Micro Functions of Language.
  5. What are popular Misunderstandings about Linguistics?
  6. Write a comprehensive note of popular schools of linguistics.

2018

Short Questions

  1. Discuss how language is a system of symbols?
  2. What is historical linguistics?
  3. What is brain plasticity?
  4. What is surface and deep structure?
  5. What is the difference between descriptive linguistics and prescriptive linguistics?
  6. How language is a system of systems?
  7. Differentiate the concepts of langue and parole.
  8. What is syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationship?
  9. What is the difference between free and bound morpheme
  10. Differentiate between lexicography and lexicology?

Long Questions

  1. What is the difference between language and linguistics? What are some of the characteristics of language?
  2. What is applied linguistics and how applied linguistics have engulfed multiple fields of language?
  3. What is the difference between IC Analysis and phrase structure? What were the weaknesses of both the ways of analyses of a sentence?
  4. What is Grammar? Give a brief detail of generative grammar.
  5. What is articulation phonetics? Describe the consonant of RP in terms of place and manner of articulation.
  6. What is meaning of the meanings? Discuss some of the aspects of meaning?

2017

Short Questions

  1. What is Acoustic Phonetics?
  2. What is Prevarication?
  3. What is functional variety of language?
  4. What is an Allophone?
  5. What is an Allomorph?
  6. Define Theo-linguistics.
  7. /w/ is articulated as a vowel but it is a consonant, why?
  8. What are approximant sounds?
  9. What is Neologism?
  10. What is a Phoneme?

Long Questions

  1. Write a comprehensive note on different theories about the origin of language. Give Examples.
  2. What is language? Give at least four definitions of language given by some renowned linguists and also give you critical understanding of these definitions.
  3. Write a detailed note on the description of Vowel Sounds reference to their articulation. Support your answer with examples from the English Vowels.
  4. What is a dialect? Explain how a dialect acquires the status of a standard language? Also elaborate different stages of the standardization process.
  5. Write a detailed note on Paul Grice’s Theory of Implicatures.
  6. Write short note on the following:
    Deviations in literary texts
    Phrase Structure Rules

2016

Short Questions

  1. What is Acoustic Phonetics?
  2. What is Prevarication?
  3. What is functional variety of language?
  4. What is an Allophone?
  5. What is an Allomorph?
  6. Define Theo-linguistics.
  7. /w/ is articulated as a vowel but it is a consonant, why?
  8. What are approximant sounds?
  9. What is Neologism?
  10. What is a Phoneme?

Long Questions

  1. Write a comprehensive note on different theories about the origin of language. Give Examples.
  2. What is language? Give at least four definitions of language given by some renowned linguists and also give you critical understanding of these definitions.
  3. Write a detailed note on the description of Vowel Sounds reference to their articulation. Support your answer with examples from the English Vowels.
  4. What is a dialect? Explain how a dialect acquires the status of a standard language? Also elaborate different stages of the standardization process.
  5. Write a detailed note on Paul Grice’s Theory of Implicatures.
  6. Write short note on the following:
    Deviations in literary texts
    Phrase Structure Rules

2015

Short Questions

  1. What is Displacement in the study of language?
  2. What is form function relationship?
  3. What are infixes?
  4. What is the difference between connotative meaning and denotative meanings?
  5. What is generative Grammar?
  6. What are minimal parirs?
  7. What is language lateralization?
  8. What is the difference between derivational morpheme and inflectional morpheme?
  9. What is the difference between voiced and voiceless sounds?
  10. What is the difference between code mixing and code switching?

Long Questions

  1. When psycholinguists say language is biologically based, do they mean that language has no social or cultural basis?
  2. Write a note on the following
    Competence and Performance
    Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Relationship
  3. What is morphology? What are some of the ways of word formation?
  4. What is immediate constituent analysis (IC analysis)? What are its limitations?
  5. What is articulatory phonetics? Explain with special reference to place and manner of articulation.
  6. What are meanings and what are some of the theories of semantics?

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  1. AnonymousDecember 12, 2023 at 5:53 PM

    Assalamo alikum Mr Asad mjhe linguistics k solved past paper chahiye please can you help me.

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  2. Imran Khan NiaziDecember 12, 2023 at 5:55 PM

    Solved linguistics paper???????????????????

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    1. Asad Imran ShahDecember 19, 2023 at 7:16 AM

      apologies, Linguistics wasn't my subject so I didn't work on it.

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