Structuralist grammar And IC Analysis

Question 1

Name some structuralists.

Answer 1

Sassure, Leonard Bloom

Question 2

Structuralists when?

Answer 2

Beginning of 20th century

Question 3

Grammarians looked at __ as model

Answer 3

Latin

Question 4

Why did grammarians take Latin as model?

Answer 4

Because it belonged to Indo European family of languages, same as English

Question 5

Grammarians felt the need to resist changes of modern English so they made ___ rules

Answer 5

Prescriptivist

Question 6

Grammarians ignored that every language is…

Answer 6

Autonomous

Question 7

Only standard to apply to a language is…

Answer 7

It’s own usage

Question 8

Grammarians gave more importance to (spoken/written)

Answer 8

Written

Question 9

Grammarians gave inadequate definition of ____

Answer 9

Parts of speech

Question 10

Structuralist linguists based models of grammar on __ and ___ data

Answer 10

Observable, verifiable

Question 11

Do structural linguists describe or prescribe?

Answer 11

Describe

Question 12

Structuralist rule: ___ is primary (spoken/written)

Answer 12

Spoken

Question 13

What comes earlier (spoken/written)?

Answer 13

Spoken

Question 14

Structuralist rule: ___ study should be primary( synchronic/diachronic)

Answer 14

Synchronic

Question 15

Why should synchronic study be primary?

Answer 15

Historical considerations are not relevant to seeing language at a particular time

Question 16

Primacy of synchronic study can be explained with

Answer 16

Chess analogy

Question 17

Each language is a system of …..

Answer 17

Relations, no validity independently, only when in combination

Question 18

Structuralists tried to describe language in terms of ___ and look for ____ in language

Answer 18

Structure, look for patterns

Question 19

Bloomfield associated language structure with…

Answer 19

Phoneme and Morpheme

Question 20

IC analysis full form?

Answer 20

Immediate Constituent Analysis

Question 21

We do IC analysis by dividing sentence until we get to…

Answer 21

Morpheme

Question 22

IC analysis example sentence?

Answer 22

The young girl with an umbrella chased the boy.

Question 23

How do we make the cuts in IC analysis?

Answer 23

By expansion

Question 24

What is expansion in IC analysis?

Answer 24

A sequence of morphemes that patterns like another sequence is said to be an expansion of it

Question 25

What is a noun phrase?(3 options)

Answer 25

Noun phrase may be a single noun or pronoun or a group of words that cluster around the noun

Question 26

A noun phrase has in it a ___ and certain ___

Answer 26

Noun, modifiers

Question 27

Modifiers optionally appearing before noun phrase are (7 pts)

Answer 27

Restrictor, pre determiner, determiner, ordinal, quantifier, classifier, adjective phrase

Question 28

Determiners are words that come before a noun to show how a noun is used, and are (3 pts)

Answer 28

Articles, demonstratives, possessives

Question 29

What is a prepositional phrase?

Answer 29

Noun phrase preceded by a preposition

Question 30

What is verbal group?

Answer 30

Generally follows the noun phrase

Question 31

Verbal group consists of __ and ___

Answer 31

Main verb, auxiliary

Question 32

Auxiliary in turn is made up of ___ and any one or more of _,_,_(3 pts)

Answer 32

The tense, and modal, perfective, progressive

Question 33

What is modal?

Answer 33

Can, will, shall, may, must

Question 34

What is perfective?

Answer 34

Have-en

Question 35

What is progressive?

Answer 35

Be+ing

Question 36

__ and __ are compulsory for a Verbal group

Answer 36

Verb, tense

Question 37

What are adverbials?(4 pts)

Answer 37

Group of words that perform adverbs function. May consist of single word, phrase or clause. Generally specifies time, place, manner, reason. Modifies a verb, adjective or adverb.

Question 38

Limitations: it is not possible to analyse some structures as ..(with example)

Answer 38

They don't form proper grammatical groups eg sequence -er

Question 39

Limitations: ambiguous sentences like Time flies (true/false)

Answer 39

True

Question 40

Limitations: sentences that are structurally similar but...

Answer 40

Semantically different

Question 41

Limitations: overlapping ICs eg He has no interest in or taste for music (true/false)

Answer 41

True

Question 42

Limitation: Unstated elements in sentence eg Hit the ball('you' missing)

Answer 42

True

Question 43

Limitation:IC fails to show relationships between sentence types such as...

Answer 43

Active and passive , statements and questions etc