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

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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. Chomsky developed Transformational-Generative Grammar in________?

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

   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. 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

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

5. Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?

   A. Cleanth Brooks
   B. Ferdinand de Saussure
   C. Karl Marx
   D. Toni Morrison

6. Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?

   A. Cleanth Brooks
   B. Ferdinand de Saussure
   C. Karl Marx
   D. Sigmund Freud

7. ______________refers to the linguistic norm specific to a geographical area, social class or status affecting mutual intelligibility ?

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

8. Phonemes which effect meaning change in the same linguistic environment are said to be in ____________?

   A. Contrastive distribution
   B. Complementary distribution
   C. Non__contrastive distribution
   D. None of the abovE.

9. The phonemes which do not occur in the same linguistic environment and which when occur so, do not bring about a change in meaning are said to be in __________?

   A. Complementary distribution
   B. Contrastive distribution
   C. Non__complementary distribution
   D. None of the abovE.

10. John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” is most similar in linguistic style to what books from “Paradise Lost” ?

    A. Three and Four
    B. Five and Six
    C. Eight and Nine
    D. Eleven and Twelve