A term which refers to the sequential characteristics of language. When we construct WORDS and SENTENCES we follow a certain order in arranging the individual items.

Related Mcqs:

1. In its general sense it refers to the creative capacity of language users to produce an endless number of new sentences, in contrast to the communication systems of animals is called ?

   A. Productivity
   B. Langue
   C. Paradigmatic
   D. Parole

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2. The study of the way that sequences of words are ordered into phrases, clauses, and sentences is called____________?

   A. Phonology
   B. Morphology
   C. Syntax
   D. Semantics

3. Human language is structured at the levels of phonemes and morphemes and at the level of words. This property of language is called_______________?

   A. Duality of structure
   B. Recursiveness
   C. Displacement
   D. TransferencE.

4. The language variety which has certain features which are typical of certain disciplines, topics, fields, occupations and social roles played by the speaker, is called________________ ?

   A. Dialect
   B. Idiolect
   C. Register
   D. Slang

5. Who defined language as “a set or (finite or infinite) sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements” ?

   A. Noam Chomsky
   B. Ferdinand de Saussure
   C. Edward Sapir
   D. None of the above

6. ____________is the process by which new words are coined by combining the segments of two different words ?

   A. Portmanteau
   B. Onomatopoeia
   C. Clipping
   D. Metanalysis

7. ______________________is a processes of word formation wherein new words are coined by combining the segments of two different existing words?

   A. Compounding
   B. Portmanteau
   C. Derivation
   D. Backformation.

8. Competence is a term to describe the knowledge possessed by native users of a language which enables them to speak and understand their language fluently was introduced by________?

   A. Sassure
   B. Enoch Powel
   C. Noam Chomsky
   D. None of these

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9. A term introduced by the linguist SAUSSURE which refers to the state of a language as it exists at any given time

   A. Synchrony
   B. Diachrony
   C. Paradigmatic
   D. N. O. T

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10. What author speaks of the exemplary story as a fundamental narrative unit in which it is important to follow chronological order ?

    A. John Foxe
    B. John Lyly
    C. Sir Thomas More
    D. Sir Walter Raleigh