Chomsky developed Transformational-Generative Grammar in________?

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1. In transformational Generative Grammar, the ‘Generative’ means______________?

   A. ‘to produce’
   B. ‘to develop’
   C. ‘to predict’
   D. All the above

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. 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”

4. Who introduced in linguistics the concept similar to Chomsky’s competence and Performance ?

   A. Charles Sanders Pierce
   B. Leonard bloom Filed.
   C. Ferdinand De Saussure.
   D. Edward Sapir

5. Noam Chomsky was born in _________?

   A. December 7, 1928
   B. December 8, 1928
   C. December 9, 1928
   D. December 10, 1928

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6. A pair of terms introduced by Noam CHOMSKY in 1965 to describe native speakers’ intuitions about the grammatical correctness, or otherwise, of sentences.

   A. Both b and c
   B. Diachrony/Synchrony
   C. Acceptable/Unacceptable
   D. N. O. T

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7. __________ is term introduced by CHOMSKY to describe ‘the actual use of language in concrete situations’

   A. Performance
   B. Parole
   C. Paradigmatic
   D. N. O. T

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8. __________________________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

9. 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.

10. Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in________?

    A. 1998
    B. 1999
    D. 1997
    D. 2000

    Submitted by: Rashid Mehmood