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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2015
Fourth semester
English
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
(CBCS – 2012 onwards)
Time : 3 Hours Maximum : 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 2 = 20)
Answer all questions in about a sentence or two each.
1. How is the parent language variously named?
2. What are the eight language groups?
3. Mention any two French military words that came to English.
4. Give any two Greek prefixes that English borrowed.
5. What is the phonetic transcription of the word “Examination”?
6. Expand GIE.
7. Define psycholinguistics.
8. What does linguistics aim at?
9. Define preposition phrase.
10. What is the difference between sentence and utterance?
Part B (5 x 5 = 25)
Answer the following questions in about 200 words each.
11. (a) Explain Grimm’s Law.
Or
(b) Discuss any three processes of word making.
12. (a) Analyze Milton’s contribution to the growth of English.
Or
(b) How did American English come into being?
13. (a) Explain Cardinal Vowels.
Or
(b) Describe word stress and sentence stress.
14. (a) Distinguish animal communication and human language.
Or
(b) What are the tenets of sociolinguistics?
15. (a) Explain the basic sentence patterns with examples.
Or
(b) Distinguish between cohesion and coherence.
Part C (3 x 10 = 30)
Answer the following questions in about 500 words each.
16. Examine the descent of English language.
17. Discuss the various ways in which French influenced the language of England.
18. Describe the classification of vowels.
19. Examine the different language varieties.
20. In what ways is TG Grammar an improvement on the Structuralists’ view of grammar?
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2015
Fourth semester
English
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
(CBCS – 2012 onwards)
Time : 3 Hours Maximum : 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 2 = 20)
Answer all questions in about a sentence or two each.
1. How is the parent language variously named?
2. What are the eight language groups?
3. Mention any two French military words that came to English.
4. Give any two Greek prefixes that English borrowed.
5. What is the phonetic transcription of the word “Examination”?
6. Expand GIE.
7. Define psycholinguistics.
8. What does linguistics aim at?
9. Define preposition phrase.
10. What is the difference between sentence and utterance?
Part B (5 x 5 = 25)
Answer the following questions in about 200 words each.
11. (a) Explain Grimm’s Law.
Or
(b) Discuss any three processes of word making.
12. (a) Analyze Milton’s contribution to the growth of English.
Or
(b) How did American English come into being?
13. (a) Explain Cardinal Vowels.
Or
(b) Describe word stress and sentence stress.
14. (a) Distinguish animal communication and human language.
Or
(b) What are the tenets of sociolinguistics?
15. (a) Explain the basic sentence patterns with examples.
Or
(b) Distinguish between cohesion and coherence.
Part C (3 x 10 = 30)
Answer the following questions in about 500 words each.
16. Examine the descent of English language.
17. Discuss the various ways in which French influenced the language of England.
18. Describe the classification of vowels.
19. Examine the different language varieties.
20. In what ways is TG Grammar an improvement on the Structuralists’ view of grammar?
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