In transformational Generative Grammar, the ‘Generative’ means______________?

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1. The theory of Transformational Generative Grammar is contained in ____________?

   A. Chomsky’s “Syntactic Structures”
   B. Chomsky’s “Aspects of the theory of Syntax”
   C. Leonard Bloomfield’s “Language”
   D. Both “a’ & “b”

2. Transformational-generative grammar is a broad theory used to model, encode, and deduce a native speaker’s linguistic capabilities, was developed by_________?

   A. Noam Chomsky
   B. Ferdenand De Sassure
   C. Leon Battista Alberti
   D. Enoch Powell

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

3. Chomsky developed Transformational-Generative Grammar in________?

   A. 1950
   B. 1951
   C. 1952
   D. 1953

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

4. The term “Agonistes” is Greek and it means______________?

   A. one who is in agony.
   B. one who inflicts agony.
   C. one who struggles for or champions a cause.
   D. one who predicts the future.

5. the word renaissance means______________?

   A. the rebirth of learning or knowledge
   B. reading of books
   C. the time of astronauts
   D. the study of art

6. __________________________is the study of how the mentally represented grammar of language is employed in the production and comprehension of speech?

   A. Socio__linguistics
   B. Psycho__linguistics
   C. Neuron__linguistics
   D. Physio –linguistics

7. Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

   A. To account by its rules for the infinite sentences of a language
   B. To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences
   C. To predict all and the only possible grammatical sentences of a language
   D. All the above.

8. The theory which is based on the assumption that language originated as a result of the involuntary exclamations of pain, surprise, pleasure or wonder_________________?

   A. Ding Dong theory
   B. The Bow__vow theory
   C. The Pooh__pooh theory
   D. The Gesture theory

9. Assimilation is mainly of ____________ types?

   A. Four
   B. Two
   C. Three
   D. Only one

10. Who introduced in linguistics the concept similar to Saussure’s Langue and Parole ?

    A. Charles Sanders Pierce
    B. Leonard bloom FileD.
    C. Noam Chomsky
    D. Edward Sapir