A. Chomsky’s “Syntactic Structures”
B. Chomsky’s “Aspects of the theory of Syntax”
C. Leonard Bloomfield’s “Language”
D. Both “a’ & “b”
Related Mcqs:
- In transformational Generative Grammar, the ‘Generative’ means______________?
A. ‘to produce’
B. ‘to develop’
C. ‘to predict’
D. All the above - 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 PowellSubmitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo
- Chomsky developed Transformational-Generative Grammar in________?
A. 1950
B. 1951
C. 1952
D. 1953Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo
- __________________________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 - 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. - Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” contained foreshadowing, which means_____________?
A. It took place at nightfall.
B. It was a moody and spooky story.
C. It contained clues to events yet to happen.
D. It had descriptions of shadows in the woods. - Which of the following famous literary lines is contained in William Butler Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming” ?
A. “Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys”
B. “And we rebuild our cities, not dream of islands”
C. “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”
D. “Mother died today” - Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” ?
A. the lyric poem written in the first person
B. the sonnet
C. doggerel rhyme
D. the political tract - Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelingsof the individual poet as \the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings\ ?
A. the lyric poem written in the first person
B. the sonnet
C. doggerel rhyme
D. the political tract - Some critics of literary theory argue that literary theory is problematic for which reason ?
A. Literary theory does not offer a holistic interpretation of a text.
B. Literary theory depends on specialized knowledge that is outside the realm of literary studies.
C. Literary theory is sometimes very abstract and difficult to read.
D. All of the above.
