PAST PAPERS MA ENGLISH (LINGUISITCS)UNIVERSITY OF
SARGODHA
2012-2013-2014-2015-2016-2017-2018-2019
2012
01. What is Semantic and Pragmatic?
02. Markedness and Unmarkedness?
03. Pitch and Tone?
04. Determiner and Adverb?
05. Affixation and Clipping?
06. Form and Substance?
07. Competance and Performance?
08. Diachrony and Synchrony?
09. Signifier and Signified?
10. Assimilation and Elision?
Q:Animal and Human Language?
Q:What is Syllable ?Associate the following words with syllable
Structure,Elevate;torment;gymnast/predatory/monologue?
Q:Define the Phonetics ?Voiceless,Velar.plosive.
voiced.labio-dental,fricatives,
Voiceless, ,palate-alveolar affricative,
Voices,palate-alveolar fricatte.
Q:Define and give the example:
Lexeme,grammatical word,word-form,morpheme,morph,allomorph,portmanteau morph,suppletion.empty
morph,zero morph.
Q:Draw the Phrase Structure Rule.
Q:Draw the Tree Structure:
2013
01. Diachronic Linguistics?
02. Deep Structure?
03. Phoneme?
04. Tone Language?
05. Stress?
06. Why/w/is not considered a vowel sound?
07. Forensic Linguistic?
08. Hyponymy?
09. Homonymy?
10. Pragmatics?
Q:Language can be studied at different levels,identify different levels of linguistics analysis?
Q:Does there exist any relationship among language,culture and thougt?If so,elaborate your answer with
examples?
Q:Write note on foregrounding in literature.Substantiate your answer with examples?
Q:Write comprehensive note on English syllable structure?
Q:What is grammar?Give a brief detail of Transforamtional Generative Grammar.
Q:Wirte comprehensive note on speech act theory?
2014:
01. Auditory and Articulatory Phonetics?
02. Language Universal?
03. Creole Language?
04. Segmental and Supra-Segmental Phonology?
05. Arbitrariness of Language?
06. Feminist Stylistics?
07. Bound and Free Morphemes?
08. Semi Vowels?
09. Polysemy and Synonymy?
10. Behaviouristic theory of language learning?
Q:Origin of Language?
Q:What is Language.Note on Micro and Macro function of Language?
Q:English consonant sounds .Manner and Place of Articulations?
Q:What is Dialect.Explain how a dialect acquires the status of standard language?Also elaborate different
stages of the standardization process?
Q:What is meant by Style?How is stylistics different from the literary criticism?Write a brief note on the scope
of literary and non-literary stylistics?
Q:Write a short note on the following:
01. Implicatures
02. Historical Linguistcs.
2015
01. What is Displacement in the study of language?
02. What is form function relationship?
03. What are infixes?
04. What is the difference between connotative meaning and denotative meaning?
05. What is generative Grammar?
06. What are minimal Paris?
07. What is language lateralization?
08. What is the difference between voiced and voiceless sounds?
09. What is difference between derivational morpheme and inflectional morpheme?
10. What is the difference between code mixing and code switching?
Q:When psycholinguistics say language is biologically bases,do they mean that language has no social or
cultural basis?
Q:Write a note on the following?a:Competence and Performance.b)Syntagmatic and Pradigmatic
Relationship?
Q:What is Morphology ?What are some of the ways of word formation?
Q:What is immediate constituent analysis (IC analysis)”What are its limitations?
Q:What is articulatory phonetics?Explain with special reference to place and manner of articulations?
Q:What are meaning and what are some of the theories of semantics?
2016
01. Auditory and Experimental Phonetics?
02. Language Typoloy?
03. Pidgin and Creole language?
04. Segmental and Supra-Segmental Phonology?
05. Duality and Arbitrariness in language?
06. Feminist Linguistics?
07. Bound and Free Morphemes?
08. Semi-Vowels?
09. Compounding and inflections in word formation?
10. Behaviourisitc theory of language learning?
Q:Origin of Language and different theories of origin of language?
Q:What is language ?Write a note on the micro and macro function of human language?
Q:Write detailed description of English Vowel sounds with reference to their articulation,Support your answer
with example.
Q:What is dialect?Explain how a dialect acquires the status of standard language?Also elaborate differenct
stages of the standardization process?
Q:What is figurative language?Write a note on different figures of speech.Give example where necessary?
Q:Write a short note on the following:
01. Derivational Morphology.
02. Descriptive Linguistics.
2017.
01.What is Acoustic Phonetics?
02.What is Prevarication?
03.What is functional variety of language?
04.What is Allophone?
05.Define theo-linguistics?
06./w/is articulated as a vowel but it is a consonant,why?
07.What are approximant sounds?
08.What is Neologism?
09.What is Phoneme?
10.What is Allomorph?
Q:What is language ?Give at least four definition of language given by some renowned linguists and also give
your critical understanding of these definitions?
Q:Write a detailed note on the description of Vowel Sounds reference to their articulation.Support your answer
with example from the English Vowels?
Q:What is dialect?Explain how a dialect acquires the status of a standard language ?Also elaborate different
stages of the standardization process.
Q:Write a detailed note on Paul Crice’s Theory of Implicatures.
Q:Write short note on the following
01. Deviations in literary texts.
02. Phrase Structure Rules.
2018
01. What is Diachrony and Synchrony?
02. What is displacement in language?
03. What is the difference between Signifier and Signified?
04. What is the difference between Phoneme and Phone?
05. What is the difference between Aspect and Tense?
06. What is generative grammar?
07. Difference code mixing and code switching?
08. What is function relationship?
09. What is lateralization?
10. Sociolinguistics is the study of language with society.Discuss?
Q:How does the universality of language support the view that language is biologically bases?
Q:Consider the main views of language i.e generative,functionalists and socio-cultural in terms of approaches
to language teaching,identifying methods that would appropriate or compatible with each approach?
Q:What is study of morphology ?Compare and contrast the derivational mophemes with inflectional
morphemes?
Q:Summarize the Semantic Files Theory?
Q:What is dialect and how a dialect attains the status of a standard language?
Q:What is meant by style and how stylistics is different from the literary criticism?
2019
01. What are the components of a Syllable?
02. What is Vowel?
03. Define Speech Act?
04. Define Langue?
05. What is Segmental Phonology ?
06. What is Articulatory Phonetics?
07. What is acoustic Phonetics?
08. What is Micro-Linguistics?
09. Who wrote Syntactic Structure?
10. Who wrote Course in General Linguistics?
Q: What is language ?Give at least four definition of language given by some renowned linguists.
Q:Wite critical note of Design Feature of Human Language?
Q:What is Stylisitics?Write a detailed note on the scope of Stylistics?
Q:Write a comprehensive note on the Macro and Micro function of language?
Q:What are Popular Misunderstanding about Linguistics?
Q:Write a comprehensive note of popular school of thought?
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