List of top Language and Linguistics Questions asked in GATE Humanities and Social Sciences- Linguistics

The use of singular they was voted ‘the word of the decade’ by linguists. Which of the following motivates the singular use?
In the sentence “The gunman sprayed the building with bullets”, the preposition phrase (PP) ‘with bullets’ is attached to _________.
Creolisation and creoles are characterised by which of the following?
Sign languages have long been used by the deaf communities to communicate amongst themselves. Which of the following is correct?
Which of the following areal/typological feature(s) may be seen in a vast majority of the languages of South Asia?
Language isolates are languages that ________
On the new ₹2000 note, how many languages can be found in the language panel displaying the denomination of the note?
Statistical learning in language development in infants refers to _________
While most of the historically known writing systems in India tend to write from left to right, identify the one which writes from right to left.
Which of the following is NOT demonstrated by studies with Great Apes like Koko and Washoe and Sarah?