Linguistic developments

Question 1

1st change in morphology.

Answer 1

Pronoun ‘whom’ became less used than the unmarked form ‘who’, although it is still heard more in Britain.

Question 2

2nd change in morphology.

Answer 2

Inflection forms of comparatives and superlatives ‘-er’, ‘-est’ began to be replaced by ‘more + adjective’ and ‘more + adjective’.

Question 3

Lexicon is the most changed aspect due to…

Answer 3

The development of scientific.technological vocabulary, rapid progress of computer/communications technology, and computer literacy.

Question 4

Borrowing vocabulary became…

Answer 4

Less important but still significant

Question 5

Previous unacceptable salang and taboo words

Answer 5

Are now in use, they have always existed but now their visibility is increasing

Question 6

The changes in syntax are often a fuction of…

Answer 6

Quantity rather than quality

Question 7

Increase in the use of progressive passive:

Answer 7

“John’s car is being serviced today.”

Question 8

The “get-passive” developed in ninteenth century:

Answer 8

“He got beaten up”.

Question 9

Expanded premodification is more common:

Answer 9

“Pat Cash, the come-backing Australian tennis player, won again”.

Question 10

Increasing use of nominalizations

Answer 10

Quarry load-shedding problem”.

Question 11

Verb phrases can be much longer:

Answer 11

“He appears to wish to be able to carry on being by the same doctor”.