Top 80+ Solved History of English Language MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Identify the word that borrowed from Latin to English
a. formula
b. phenomenon
c. criteria
d. analogy
Q. Identify the word that borrowed from French to English
a. phenomenon
b. guillotine
c. theatre
d. genius
Q. Who is the author of the book “The Growth and Structure of the English Language”?
a. otto jespersen
b. robert lowth
c. william bullokar
d. willaiam cobbett
Q. Name of the group of related languages all derived from vulgar Latin within historical timesand forming a subgroup of the italic branch of the Indo – European language family.
a. italic languages
b. sardinian languages
c. romanian languages
d. romance languages
Q. Identify the language that is included in Romance languages
a. spanish
b. sanskrit
c. german
d. arabic
Q. Identify a word that is originated from Dutch language
a. rainbow
b. landscape
c. shampoo
d. water
Q. In linguistics ………….is the study of words , how they are formed, and their relationship toother words in the same language
a. ontology
b. morphology
c. phonology
d. etymology
Q. The branch of linguistics and logics concerned with meaning
a. morphology
b. ontology
c. semantics
d. etymology
Q. ‘Immediate Constituent Analysis’ was first introduced by…………
a. zelling harris
b. roulon wells
c. bloomfield
d. norm chomsky
Q. Transformational-Generative Grammar was developed by……
a. bloomfield
b. norm chomsky
c. m a k halliday
d. henderson
Q. ………..put forward a theory called ‘Scale and Category Grammar’
a. bloomfield
b. j r firth
c. norm chomsky
d. m a k halliday
Q. The Firthian or Hallidayan theory may be said to represent the………..School of Linguistics
a. american
b. british
c. french
d. german
Q. …………..is a semantic process by a term which at one time had a specialized and restrictedmeaning comes to have a wider application.
a. specialization
b. generalization
c. deterioration
d. polarisation