1. LINGUISTICS FIRSE TERM EXAM
1. - Answer the following questions. ( 15 pts.)
a.- Why is it said that we rarely consider language as an object of study?
Because everyday encorenten with language are so natural and extensive ( language is always
there)
b.- Whrite one of the questions that form the basic of the linguist.s investigation of human know
ledge?
c.- What.s a language family?
It.s a group of languages that come fron a same rcat, example, Germanic family, romance
languages
d.- Give a brief explanation about the biblical story of babel
It, was a punishment for people in order to splinter the only language all mankind had in
commen
e.- Is English a romance language? Explain
No, because English comes from Germanic languages
2.- Choose the appropriate answer and complete the sentences. ( 10 pts.)
a.- All human beings have know and used language since childhood
a.- baby childhood ado lescence they were born
b.- the goal of linguistics is to describe languages and to explain
cres uncon suores know ledge
problem absewation goal understanding
c.- Linguistics is the scientific study of the language
scientific scientic com mon social
d.- Linguists are not only scholars who are concer ned with the study of language
profesors teachers sociologists scholars
e.- The eailiest records of greek interest in language relate to the manuscripts in the 5 th
century B.C.
philosophers manuscripts sophists speeches of the masters
f.- Onu of the earliest philosophical questions refers to the relation ship
between the pronunciation of a word and its meaning
meaning scrend conventional meaning natural meaning
g.- Some scholars maintained that language was basically systematic and regular
conventional natural systematic descriptive
h.- In the 18 th century European students of language were exposed to the study of Sanskrit
language
i.- Languages that are believed to share several com men characteristics belong to the same
language family
Indo – European family language family language group
Romance languages
j.- The structural linguistics pays attention to the structure pf the language

2. gramman discovery procedures syntax form structure
k.- The structural linguistics concentrated on techniques of linguistics analysis called discovery
procedures
3.- Complete and give the connect information . ( 5pts)
a.- transformational linguistics was a new approach to the study of language developed by N.
Chomsky
b.- Sociolinguistics treats the differences in language and language use conelated with
differences in social groups
c.- The language probably used by Christ and the apostles was the Aramaic
d.- From the middler ages well into the 19 th century , grammarians tendend to fashion English
upon latin models
e.- Inevitable change in verbal use in living language is a matter of habit rather than logic
4.- Explain briefly about the period called Reanisrance . ( 15 pts.)
The Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement or the revival
Of culture and art this movement was born in Italy,
It,s known as “ Golden Age”. In this movement
People were interested in the ancient manucripts , Renaissance
William skakespeare hamlet
Leonarda Da vinci – la monalisa
Michael Angel – La Pietra