Meg-4 Important topics from Exam Point of View:

 Meg-4 Important topics from Exam Point of View:


I = Number of times the question was asked in previous year’s exam.

IIII = 5


  1. Distinguish between vowels(Classification, Cardinal Vowels - III and consonants (Place and manner) by referring to their criteria of classification. - IIII IIII II

  2. Define 'bilingualism'(types, Cline) /Multilingualism. Discuss its consequences for L1 and L2.  language variation. factors that have bearing upon second language acquisition. - IIII IIII 

Tudor Learner -actors that have a bearing on second language - II

Aptitude and age as learner factors in second language Acquisition.

Role of attitudes motivation in language learning.

 Some people perform better than others in learning a second language. What are the explanations offered for second language learning research ?

  1. language planning (types, define, practical consideration,need, ideology)  - IIII IIII

  2. What is morphology ? Distinguish between Inflectional and Derivational Morphology. Clipping as a Morphological Device - III

  3. code-mixing and code-switching - IIII II

  4. characteristics of human language diff with animals - IIII 

  5. What, according to Grice, is meant by the 'co-operative' principle- IIII and its maxims ? Explain and exemplify conversational implicatures. - II

  6. The Origins of Language

Three stages of the evolution of the English language.

American English - III

Latin Borrowing - III

Borrowings of words in English

French borrowings in English - I

Affixes, Stems and Roots

Simple, complex, compound words

Distinguish between "word" as a physical shape 25 and "word" as an abstract entity i.e. phonological and orthographic words and lexemes.

Discuss the following approaches to word formation - I :  Compounding 

Reduplication as a process of word Formation - III

  1. Conversion Inflectional Reduplication, coupling

  2. five tests of determining a syntactic constituent. - III

  3.  linguistics and literary criticism - IIII 

  4. grammatical changes from old English to Modern English. - III

  5. 'Speech - Community' - IIII

  6. Competence and performance - IIII

  7. Bloomfield's theory (contribution to Structuralism.)- II

    1.  Transformational Generative Grammar and how it was different from Bloornfield's model 

    2. structuralism, in the field of Linguistics? Explain the differences between the approaches of Sapir and Bloomfield

  8. Indianization of English

Indianisms in English. - II

 Indianness of Indian English 

  1. Pidgins and creoles - III

  2. Backformation - II

  3. Foregrounding - II

Foregrounding Through Parallelism

  1. language standardization (need). - II

standard' and 'standardized'

Standard language (need and example, process, constituent)

Consequences 

  1. Generative-syntax

"scope" in syntax - II

  1. European and American structuralism - II

  2. Status planning - II

  3. dialect and language - I

language variation in terms of dialect, style and register. - II

dialect and register, style.  Foregrounding as a Stylistic Device

  1.  Blends - I

  2. Negation - I

    1. Discuss the scope of negation and negation as a 20 logical operation. List with examples the different kinds of negation in English. 

  3. Language and Style - I

Langue and Parole

  1. Anaphora - I

  2. What is intonation ? Describe the three tone groups in terms of their functions. - I

  3. Quantifiers in English

  4. Derivational Affixes

  5. Language shapes the world-view of the individual

  6. Sapir-whorf hypothesis

  7. Ethnography of Communication

  8. Wh-Movement and Wh-Traces

  9.  'style' in Language and what are its uses? What check-list could be drawn up to analyse literary texts in terms of style ? Style and content

  10. Saussurean principles of sign-system

Saussurean principles of Structural Linguistics

  1. stress and Rhythm in connected speech

  2.  literal vs figurative  meanings

  3. Sociolinguistics

  4. clauses in English (Finite and Non Finite)  Clause types and Sentence types.

  5. three ways by which change of meaning takes place.

  6.  The Falling/Rising Tone and its Functions - I

  7.  spelling became unphonetic

    1. Word in English

    2. word" as a physical shape and "word" as an abstract entity

dialect, accent, register style


Note - All of these topics have been asked previously.

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