Name of the University : Indian Statistical Institute
Exam : ISI Admission Test
Document Type : Sample/Previous Year Question Paper
Name of the Subject : Linguistics
Year : 2016
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JRF Linguistics Sample Questions for ISI Admission Test 2017
PAPER I (LNA) :
Time : 2 hours
Full Marks: 100
Session : Forenoon
Related / Similar Question Paper : ISICAL PGDBA 2020 Sample Questions
General Introduction to Linguistics :
** It contains twenty five (25) short answer type questions. You have to answer twenty (20) questions only – each one in about one hundred fifty (150) words.
** Each question carries equal marks.
Answer all the Question : (20 X 5 = 100)
(1) Based on the feature of Anterior and Coronal differentiate the following sounds: [p], [k], [c], and [t].
(2) How synchronic and diachronic dimensions are relevant in the study of a natural language?
(3) What are the major levels of a natural language? Explain.
(4) Differentiate between [ph] and [f], and [bh] and [v] with regard to place and manner of articulation and phonation process.
(5) How can you justify that ‘strip’ is a valid word, ‘strib’ is a potential word, while ‘ftrib’ is an invalid word in English?
(6) Decompose the following word showing its hierarchical pattern of formation: denationalizationality.
(7) How do we derive ‘truly’ from ‘true’? Show which morphological rule is activated here.
(8) What is the morphological identity of ‘o’ in ‘will-o-the-wisp’, and ‘Indo-European’?
(9) Who can you define the morphological identity and function of ‘-er’ in words like ‘taller’, ‘finer’, ‘smaller’, ‘player’, ‘worker’, and ‘singer’?
(10) Show how transformational rules are ordered with the example Wash yourself.
(11) How can you explain that ‘He killed himself’ and ‘He himself killed’ are two different types of transformation with two different types of pronoun?
(12) Based on the theory of sub-categorization show the thematic structure of the following three verbs: smile, call, and give.
(13) Show to which type of homonym the following words belong write, right, and rite.
(14) Dissolve the ambiguity embedded in the following sentence Time flies like an arrow.
(15) Explain: NPsing ? Det + N + Ø while NPplur ? Det + N + s
(16) Following Charles Ferguson identify nine rubrics of Diglossia.
(17) Distinguish between ‘acrolet’, ‘mesolect’, and ‘basilect’.
(18) Differentiate between Co-ordinate and Compound Bilingualism.
(19) Explain proxemics in non-verbal communication.
(20) Indentify those demographic variables that are considered relevant in socio linguistics
(21) Differentiate between corpus planning and status planning.
(22) Define poetic, metalinguistic, and phatic function of language.
(23) Differentiate between signifier, signifie, and signified.
(24) Show differences between dialect, sociolect, and idiolect.
(25) How many language families are found in India? Name them and locate their region-based usage in the country.
PAPER II (LNB) :
Corpus Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Translation Studies, Language Teaching, Lexicography, and Field Linguistics
Time: 2 hours
Full Marks: 100 (10 X 10 = 100)
Session : Afternoon
** It contains fifteen (15) descriptive questions. You have to answer only ten (10) questions – each one in about three hundred (300) words. Each question carries equal marks.
1. Tag the words in the following sentence at part-of-speech level, and count their frequency of occurrence in the text. “The concept of constituent structure is based on the observation that units which occur next to each other tend to belong together in the sense that they are structurally intimately related” (Bent Jacobsen 1978: 7).
2. What are the major features of a digital text corpus? Explain.
3. Lemmatize the following words: structurally, intimately, related, based, was, conceptual, informative, went, beautification, school.
4. Write a note on Interlingual Method of Machine Translation.
5. What is parsing? Differentiate with example between ‘full parsing’ and ‘skeleton parsing’.
6. Following J. Catford differentiate translation in terms of extent, level and rank.
7. Following Eugene Nida, explain the three-phase model of translation.
8. Explain with examples the major lexical problems of translation.
9. Give at list five reasons to show how a digital dictionary excels over a printed dictionary.
10. Explain how you can differentiate between a dictionary and a thesaurus.
11. Show how you can collect headwords for a general reference dictionary of a language.
12. Classify among teaching aids and show how they can be used in English language Teaching.
13. Explain how the British National Corpus (BNC) can be utilized in Corpus-Based English Language Teaching (C-BELT) system for Indian learners.
14. What are the primary criteria you should consider for selection of informants for collecting data from a dialect?
15. Justify how a large collection of free discourse speech is a better representative of language and life of a speech community than basic vocabulary list and primary sentence list.