Chapter Chapter 8: Morphology
What is morphology?
What is a morpheme?
What are free morphemes and bound morphemes?
What is the difference between derivational morpheme and inflectional morpheme?
What is an allomorph? Explain with examples.
Chapter 9: Grammar
Explain the traditional categories like a) agreement, b)number, c)person,
Explain the traditional categories like a)gender, b)grammatical gender, c)natural gender
What are the parts of speech in English? Explain each and give examples.
What is the difference between prescriptive and descriptive approaches to grammar?
Do an Immediate Constituent (IC) analysis on the sentence: “My friend bought his father’s car yesterday”
Mark the following sentence using Labeled and Bracketed structure: “My friend bought his father’s car yesterday”
Chapter 10: Syntax
What is syntax?
Explain Generative Grammar as developed by Chomsky.
Explain recursion.
Explain the difference between deep structure and surface structure.
What are the basic phrase structure rules?
Explain the following sentences using labeled tree diagram: “My friend bought his father’s car yesterday” and “Yesterday my friend bought his father’s car”
Chapter 11: Semantics
What is semantics?
What is the difference between conceptual and associative meaning?
Explain synonymy in your own words. Give examples.
Explain antonymy in your own words. Give examples.
Explain hyponymy in your own words. Give examples.
Explain prototypes in your own words. Give examples.
Explain homophony in your own words. Give examples.
Explain homonymy in your own words. Give examples.
Explain homography in your own words. Give examples.
Explain polysemy in your own words. Give examples.
Explain metonymy in your own words. Give examples.
Explain collocation in your own words. Give examples.
Chapter 12: Pragmatics
What is pragmatics?
Explain context and show the difference between physical context and linguistic context.
What is deixis? What are the different kinds of deixis used.
Explain reference and inference in pragmatics.
What is anaphora? Explain it with the help of the notion of antecedent.
Explain the basic principles of conversational interaction.
Explain the idea of presupposition in pragmatics.
Explain the difference between direct and indirect speech acts.
Explain politeness using the notion of face. Refer to face threatening and face saving acts.
Chapter 16: First Language Acquisition
What is L1?
What is caretaker speech? What are its features?
What are the different stages through which a child acquires its first language?
What are pre-language stages? Explain each stage.
What is holophrastic stage in L1 acquisition?
What is two-word stage in L1 acquisition?
What is telegraphic speech in L1 acquisition?
When does overgeneralization occur in L1 acquisition? Why does it happen?
Chapter 17: Second Language Acquisition
What is L2
What is SLA?
What are the barriers for SLA?
What is critical period hypothesis?
Explain affective filter in SLA?
What are the different methods of teaching L2?
Explain Grammar Translation method. What are its drawbacks?
Explain Audio-lingual method. What are its drawbacks?
What is CLT?
What is interlanguage?
Explain Communicative Language Teaching. What are its advantages?
Explain the idea of communicative competence. What are its components?
