My Father’s Hands My father’s hands are beautiful, they can fix this moth’s wing

MEG – 04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT 2018 - 2019

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

          Max. Marks: 100

5. Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:

My Father’s Hands

My father’s hands

are beautiful, they can

fix this moth’s wing and make machines

they can mend the fuse when the world

goes dark

can make light swim and walls jump in around me again

I can see my mother’s face again.

[The rest of the poem is in the question paper, just using the first part only]

i Pick out the verbs that describe what the father’s hand do.

The father's hand can fix the wings of a moth, make machines, mend the fuse during blackouts, make light swim and wals jump....................

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What is the difference between the Generativists and Structuralists

MEG – 04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT 2018 - 2019

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

          Max. Marks: 100

4. What is the difference between the Generativists and Structuralists? In what way have the Generative insights into language contributed to linguistic theory?

Generative grammar  is the theory of language proposed by Chomsky in his Syntactic Structures (1957). It provides a set of finite rules that defines the unlimited number of sentences of the language and associates each with an appropriate grammatical description.

There are two principal goals which underline this theory. They are :

1. The universal features (i.e features which are intrinsic to language as a whole) which constitute grammars of individual language should be characterized in formal terms.
2. Formal statements should be provided for characterizing the grammars of individual languages. This goal is equated with characterizing the tacit knowledge or competence which native speakers have about syntactic, phonological, morphological and semantic patterning in their language. Generative grammar sees the theory of competence as forming a central component of language which interacts with principles from cognition, neurology, physiology and other domains to give language its overall character

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How is inflectional morphology different from derivational morphology?

MEG – 04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT 2018 - 2019

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

          Max. Marks: 100

3. How is inflectional morphology different from derivational morphology? Discuss, give examples.

The inflection morphology of a language is usually discussed in terms of paradigm. A paradigm refers to a set of form derived by the application of certain grammatical rules to a lexical, or, in the case of pronouns and auxiliaries, to a function word. This English verb has a paradigm (―the verb paradigm‖) which consists of the grammatical words derived by the application of those grammar rules which are pertinent to the English verb. For example, the paradigm of the verb ―break‖ contains the forms break, breaks, breaking, broke, broken. Each of these forms is derived by the application of separate grammar rules like present tense formation, past tense formation, past participle formation, etc

Inflectional vs. Derivational Morphology

John Lyons ( 1968) tells us that grammars written in the classical tradition of Greek and Latin were generally divided into three section

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Why is language planning essential in any country and What are the factors which influence language planning?

MEG – 04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT 2018 - 2019

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

          Max. Marks: 100

2. Why is language planning essential in any country? What are the factors which influence language planning?

“Language planning is deliberate language change; that is; changes in the systems of language code or speaking or both that are planned by organizations that are established for such purposes or given a mandate to fulfill such purposes. As such, language planning is focused on problem-solving and is characterized by the formulation and evaluation of alternatives for solving language problems to find the best (or optimal, most efficient) decisions” __Rubin and Jernudd

Language planning is one of the dimensions of language in use. In complex multilingual societies, language planning assumes an even more important role since minority languages and other marginalized languages must be given a certain space. In general terms, planning is concerned with deliberately achieving some objective through the utilization of resources in a consciously controlled way. The concept of planning has, however, been a subject of considerable debate.

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Types of Negation and its interaction with Scope

MEG – 04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT 2018 - 2019

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

          Max. Marks: 100

d. Types of Negation and its interaction with Scope

Negation, in logic, is a one-place operator that converts a true proposition into a false one and a false proposition into a true one. In English syntax, any one of the elements no, not, -n’t, never, neither....nor, nowhere, whereas Scope is a semantic property specifying the domain of interpretation of an expression such as an adverb or a quantifier, often relative to another such expression; scope is resolved at the level of LF( Logical Form)

Negation in English is a fascinating area of study, precisely because it plays a central role in affecting both the structure and the total meaning of a sentence at the same time. The term negation is used to cover words such as the  utterance no, not and the contraction -n’t, the negative indefinite pronouns nothing, nobody, the adjectives no (as in no one or no money), the adverbs nowhere , never, and the conjunctions neither...nor.

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The notion of a Speech Community

MEG – 04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT 2018 - 2019

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

          Max. Marks: 100

C. The notion of a Speech Community

Speech community refers to a group of people who form a community, eg. a village, a region, a nation, and who have at least one speech variety in common.

From the definition of speech community, it is clear that there is a general belief that each language defines and delimits a speech community. So, the general equation that seems to be operative is “one language-one community”. The key issue regarding the notion of speech community is determining and naming a speech community that operates with and uses two or more language.

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