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Majmaah University- AZ Zulfi Faculty of Education
Historical Linguistics Quiz (1)-Level 5 (132)
Student Name:_________Dr. Faiza___________
Date:
30 / 12 /1436 -
Time( 2hrs)
Question One: answer the following questions: 2m arks
1. What are the kinds of changes that happen in a language?
a.__Phonological change
morphological_
c._Syntactic change
2. Change the following into to their correct modern English forms:1
a. “Let not thy mother lose her prayers : > Don’t let your mother lose her prayers
b. “I know thee not old man, fall to thee prayers”> I don’t know you old man, fall to your
prayers
3. Why does a language borrow from one another? 1. Needs 2.prestige
Question Two:
Match words in (A ) with their meaning in (C)and put the correct letter
in (B): 1 mark
A
B
C
1.diachronic
c
a. conditional
2. arthrography
d
b. study the history of change in a single language
3.cognate
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c. through time
4. a kind of sound change a
d. spelling change
5. philology
b
e. share
Question Three : circle the correct answer:1mark
1. Words are borrowed after be remodeled to fit the…… …….. structure of the borrowing:
a. phonological
b. morphological
c. both a &b
2. Historical Linguistics studies:
a. how language change
b. how it works. c. language families d) a ,c
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3. How to identify that this word is loaned or borrowed? By:
a. Phonological history
b. Morphological complexity
d. both
4. Sound can be borrowed:
a. Through a real diffusion
b. through onomatopoeia (imitate)
c. both a, b
Question 4: Write (T) if the statement is correct and (F) if it is wrong: 1mark
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2.
3.
4.
Clicks are South African’s language :
Change in arthrography is one of Language change
Historical Linguistics is not about phonological change
comparative method is used to detect the change in L
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