(6 pages)

DECEMBER 2020 P/ID 36507/PENG

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

PART A — (10 × 2 = 20 marks)

Answer the following in about 50 words each.

1. How were languages born?

2. What is Grimm’s law?

3. What did Copenhagen mean?

4. How did the word ‘village’ originate?

5. What are the divisions of speech sounds?

6. What are junctures?

7. Define the rules for Transformational Grammar.

8. What are homophones?

9. What is the main attraction of T.G. Grammar?

10. What is overt prestige?

 PART B — (5 × 6 = 30 marks)

Answer the following questions in about 250 words

each choosing either (a) or (b).

11. (a) Mark primary and secondary accents for the

given sentence.

(i) Riya organized a fashion show

(ii) The travellers finally reached their

destination

(iii) You are not using your

opportunities

(iv) They are preparing for the competition

(v) You should not play with fire.

Or

(b) Briefly trace the history of the languages of

Britian.
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12. (a) How did Christianity introduce new words
into English?

Or

(b) What is Onomatopoeia?

13. (a) What do you understand by ‘air stream

mechanism’?

Or

(b) Write a note on the composition of the

syllable.

14. (a) Explain the features of structural grammar.

Or

(b) Define deixis.

15. (a) What is the main focus of formal linguistics?

Or

(b) Explain 'a dialect continuum'.

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 PART C — (5 × 10 = 50 marks)

Answer the following questions in about 500 words

each choosing either (a) or (b).

16. (a) Define Pidgin, Creole and Decreolisation.

Or
(b) Describe the relationship between language
and culture.

17. (a) Describe seven types of meaning with

suitable example.

Or
(b) Elucidate the classification of phrases.

18. (a) Explain why there is a need for a model in

describing English.

Or
(b) Describe in detail the different assimilations
possible in English.

19. (a) Give an example of the principal ways of

semantic change in English language.

Or
(b) Write an essay on the changes in
pronunciation that took place during
Renaissance.

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[P.T.O.]
20. (a) Transcribe the following:

Raju: Good Morning Mr.Bhardwaj. How

are you this morning?

Bhardwaj: Good morning. I’m very well,

thank you. I’m afraid we haven’t
had the pleasure of meeting each
other before, but still you seem to
know me.

Raju: As a candidate for the

forthcoming parliamentary
elections, I ought to know all the
voters in my constituency.

Bhardwaj: Oh, that’s it, is it? So you hope to

become an M.P?

Raju: With your support, I am sure I will, Mr.

Bahardwaj may I appeal to you to cast
your vote in my favour? My name is
Raju and I belong to the people’s party.

Or

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(b) Transcribe the following.

In 1945, Orwell published animal farm, an

anti–utopian novel in the form of an animal
satire. The subject of the satire is
communism. It brought huge money to him.
It is a little book but a full one. Actually the
book was written in 1943 and 1944, toward
the end of world war II. It was rejected by
four publishers before it became popular. It
is considered a more effective sermon. In
form, it is a satire on the history of Russia
under communist rule, from the revolution in
1917 to the Teheran conference in 1943.
Orwell portrays how the power vested on an
individual would inevitably create a
dictator–leading to exploitation and
suppression of people resulting in tyranny.

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