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-true/false (102)
1. In ancient Greece, techne grammatike was the skill of reading and writing. T
2. Aristotle recognized different word forms which he called ptosis. T
3. Dyonisius Thrax wrote the first book about syntax. F (on uopce nije ni spominjao
sintaksu)
4. The Stoics travelled giving instructions in oratory skills. F (to su bili sofisti)
5. Bloomfield considered linguistics a branch of psychology, especially positivist
psychology - behaviorism. T
6. Edward Sapir was a representative of ethnolinguistics. T
7. Benjamin Lee Whorf wrote Syntactic Structures. F (bio je to Chomsky)
8. The nature of language acquisition is different than animal learning. T
-dopuni (142)
1. (Priscian) wrote Institutione Grammaticae.
2. (Humboldt) saw language as "infinite use of finite resources".
3. In his paper, (sir William Jones) established beyond doubt the historical kinship of
Sanskrit with Latin, Greek and Germanic languages.
4. German linguists who worked in the 19th century searched for models of
linguistic analysis in other natural sciences. They were called (Junggrammatiker) or
(Neogrammarians).
5. Immediate constituent analysis was introduced by (Leonard Bloomfield).
According to this analysis, the sentence "Poor John ran away." has (5) morphemes
(poor, John, ran, a-, way) but only two (immediate constituents), (poor John) and
(ran away). Then these constituents are analyzed into "poor" and "John", "ran" and
"away", and away is analyzed into (a) and (way). These last units are the (ultimate
constituents) of the sentence.
6. (Language faculty) is genetically transmitted algorithm for developing a grammar
on the basis of linguistic experience.
7. In Cognitive Linguistics, members of a category are radially distributed around
the (prototype).
napisi primjer (42) syntagmatic relationship: I like football (horizontal axis)
paradigmatic relationship: I like your dress (vertical axis)
null subject language:
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TEST 1 1. T/F
1.Techne grammatike is the oldest surviving grammar. T
2.Langue is a language as a general system of conventions. T
3.Parole is what we say or write. T
4.Ferdinand de Saussure is the founder of modern linguistics. T
5.Language learning is an imitative process. F
2.Fill in the gaps!
According to syntactic criteria, Humboldt divided languages into analytic, synthetic
and polysynthetic.
The main representatives of comparative linguistics: Jakob Grimm, Franz Bopp and
Rasmus Rask.
Diachronic description described changes of one sound over a certain period of time
while synchronic description is a systematic description of the stat of language...
According to behaviorist approach, language is a series of stimuli and responses.
Parameters: null-subject, wh-parameter and head position.
3.Circle the correct answer (more than one is possible): 1. Main
representatives of American structuralism
a) Franz Boas
b) Leonard Bloomfield
c) Edward Sapir
d) Benjamin Lee Whorf
e) Jakob Grimm
Define the terms: Isolating languages The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS 1
2012