List of top Levels of Grammar and Grammatical Analysis Questions asked in GATE Humanities and Social Sciences- Linguistics

Which of the following option/s show/s increasing order of sonority, from left to right?
Choose the option/s that lead/s to the ungrammaticality of the English word *grammarismian.
Which of the following sentence/s depict/s unaccusative construction/s?
Which of the option/s can be applied to the following sound change rule? \( k \rightarrow ? / \_ \# \)

Choose the option that correctly matches the terms in column X with their corresponding terms in column Y.


 

Given the sentences S1 and S2, choose the option that explains why S2 cannot be derived from S1. 
S1: Deadpool was interested in Wolverine's description of morphosyntax. 
S2: *What was Deadpool interested in Wolverine's description of?

Consider the following two statements, S1 and S2 and choose the correct option. 
S1: If X is an adjunct of Y, then Y is an argument of X because the presence of Y in a sentence is necessary for X to occur. 
S2: It is not necessarily true that if Y is an argument of X, then X is Y's adjunct.

Given the following phonological rule, which one of the options CANNOT be an output? 


 

In which of the following options, both languages do NOT exhibit verbal agreement?
Which of the following set/s consist/s of at least two [+continuant] sounds?
Which of the following aspect/s use/s pitch as a primary acoustic correlate?
Which of the following acoustic characteristics is/are applicable to the vowel /i/?
Which of the following sets depict/s natural class of alveolar consonants?
Which of the following is/are type/s of affix/es?
What is/are the grammatical feature/s encoded in the English morpheme –s in the sentence 'The director sing-s'?