The study of language and mind, which has greatly advanced our understanding of the way in which we acquire language is_________?

A. Sociolinguistics
B. Psycholinguisctics
C. Biolinguistics
D. None of these

The Syntactic Structures is a book written by Noam Choamsky in__________?

A. 1957
B  1958
C. 1959
D. 1960

Reflections on Language is a book written by Noam Choamsky in__________?

A. 1975
B. 1976
C. 1977
D. 1988

_______ is a term denotes historical perspective for studying language ?

A. Synchrony
B. Diachrony
C. Both a and b
D. None of these

Competence is a term to describe the knowledge possessed by native users of a language which enables them to speak and understand their language fluently was introduced by________?

A. Sassure
B. Enoch powel
C. Noam chomsky
D. None of these

Chomsky developed Transformational-Generative Grammar in________?

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

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 powell

Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in________?

A. 1998
B. 1999
D. 1997
D. 2000

Morphology is the branch of linguistics which deals with

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


D. None of these

The study of relationships between two or more languages and the investigation whether the common languages have a common ancestor is called___________?

A. psycho linguistics
B. sociolinguistics
C. comparative linguistics
D. none of these