Print Quiz: LINGUISTIC THEORY (linguistic theory)

1.

Was the first person to distinguish between nouns and verbs?

A.

Ferdinand de Saussure

B.

Platon

C.

Noam Chomsky

D.

Franz Boas

2.

Who is sometimes labeled “ the father of modern linguistics”?

A.

Plato and Aristotle

B.

Sir William Jones

C.

Ferdinand de Saussure

D.

NoamChomsky

3.

Who considered that linguistics should deal objectively and systematically with observable data?*

A.

Ferdinand de Saussure

B.

Franz Boas

C.

Bloomfield

D.

Noam Chomsky

4.

Who started a revolution in linguistics?

A.

Ferdinand de Saussure

B.

Sir William Jones

C.

Franz Boas

D.

Noam Chomsky

5.

Is a grammar which consists of a set of statements or rules which specify which sequences of a language are possible and which impossible?

A.

Modern linguistics

B.

Generative grammar

C.

Bloomfield

D.

Noam Chomsky

6.

Which historical background began with the work of Ferdinand de Saussure and his general course on linguistics (1916)?

A.

Modern linguistics

B.

Sir William Jones

C.

Modern linguistics

D.

Noam Chomsky.

7.

Who established American descriptive linguistics and trained the leading American structural linguistics in particular Sapir and Bloomfield

A.

Modern linguistics

B.

Franz Boas

C.

Noam Chomsky.

D.

Ferdinand de Saussure