What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics ?

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1. What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics ?

   A. Language is inseparable from its historical context.
   B. There are five phases of linguistic development.
   C. Language can be analyzed as a formal system of elements.
   D. Linguistics is too complicated to be distilled to a formula.

2. 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

3. 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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4. Who introduced in linguistics the concept of Competence and Performance ?

   A. Charles Sanders Pierce
   B. Ferdinand de Saussure
   C. Noam Chomsky
   D. Edward Sapir

5. 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

6. _______________is the discipline where the methodological perspectives of both linguistics and sociology converges ?

   A. Linguistics of sociology
   B. Socio__linguistics
   C. Sociology of linguistics
   D. None of these

7. Which among the following is not a branch of linguistics ?

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

8. ______________________ is the device used in modern linguistics for grouping together words and phrases so as to remove ambiguity of construction?

   A. Transformational Generative grammar
   B. The phrase structure Grammar
   C. Immediate Constituent Analysis
   D. All the abovE.

9. Morphology is the branch of linguistics which deals with

   A. The study of the structure of sounds and symbols.

   B.t study of the structure of letters.

   C. The study of the structure of words 

   D. N. O. T

10. Father of modern linguistics is ________?

    A. Noam Chomsky
    B. Ferdenand De Sassure
    C. None of these
    D. Both A and B

    Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo