Survey Questions

• What’s a language?
• What’s the ‘bow-wow’ theory and identify its deficiencies?
• Mention two leading figures of American structuralism?
• What is allophone?
• What is minimal pair? Cite an example?
• What is derivational morphology? Give an example?
• What’s Chomsky’s generativist view of language?
• Human language differs from animal communication in term of
‘displacement’. Discuss?
• What are the three major types of English vowels? Cite example for
each?
• Study the ungrammaticality / ill-formedness of : he frightened the table.
• What is hyponymy?
• Represent the D-structure of:
Mary wrote a book.
and what kind of operation used to obtain wrote and not *writed.