MUTHAYAMMAL MEMORIAL COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE c) Hall’s definition

III-B.A.ENGLISH d) Noam chomsky’s definition

SUBJECT: LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC TIME: 2.00 Hours e) Derbyshire’s definition
SUBJECT CODE: 17UEN06 MAXIMUM MARKS: 50 f) Other definition
SECTION-A (5 X 2=10) 12. Elaborate on scientific procedures do linguistic employ in the study of
I. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN ABOUT 30 WORDS Language?
EACH: 13. Discuss about animal communication and human communication?
1. Elaborate on language and define the other means of communication?
2. According to Robin’s definition what is language?
3. Describes the terms synchronic and diachronic?
4. Bring out the different between a linguist and a polyglot?
5. Write a note on contrastive linguistics?
SECTION-B (5X 5 = 25)
II. ANSWER ANY FOUR OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN
ABOUT 100 WORDS EACH:
6. Bring out the short note on language is species- specific and
Specie- Uniform?
7. Show how language is arbitrary?
8. Describes the characteristic of language?
9. Define --- a) Descriptive linguistics
b) Historical linguistics
c) Comparative linguistics
10. Explain short notes on cognates?
SECTION-C (3 X 10 =30)
III.ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN
ABOUT 200 WORD EACH:
11. Define ---- a) Robin’s definition
b) Sapir’s definition