List of top Levels of Grammar and Grammatical Analysis Questions

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?
What is/are the grammatical feature/s encoded in the English morpheme –s in the sentence 'The director sing-s'?
Which of the following is/are type/s of affix/es?

For the sentence [Li knows [CP1 that you believe [CP2 that Mo thinks CP3 that Jo likes Kai]]]. which of the following statements can be held to apply?

The structures below represent two interpretations of the compound noun 'Greek history teacher'. Which of the following statements is/are CORRECT? 


 

Consider the following sentence: \(\textit{Guna found Jiya in the park with the children from her neighbourhood.}\) Identify the descriptions that apply to this sentence.

Consider the following four ungrammatical sentences. Pay attention to the co-indexation. 

(i) *Gopal$_i$ gifted him$_i$ a piano. 
(ii) *Himself$_i$ likes Gopal$_i$. 
(iii) *Gopal$_i$ thinks that Radha will marry himself$_i$. 
(iv) *Radha$_i$'s mother$_i$ loves herself$_i$. 
Which of the following statements are CORRECT with reference to Principles A, B, and C of the Binding Theory?

Examine the following data from Swahili, a Bantu language, and choose the correct statements. 
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{Swahili} & \textbf{Meaning} \\ \hline \textit{ni-na-soma} & \text{I am reading} \\ \textit{a-na-soma}  & \text{She/he is reading} \\ \textit{tu-na-soma} & \text{We are reading} \\ \hline \textit{ni-li-soma} & \text{I read [past]} \\ \textit{a-li-soma}  & \text{She/he read [past]} \\ \hline \textit{ni-ta-soma} & \text{I will read} \\ \textit{tu-ta-soma} & \text{We will read} \\ \hline \end{array} \]
 

A linguist was asked to develop a syllabic writing system for a toy language Hadada with ONLY the following words (phonetic transcription):

With reference to the tree diagram for the sentence \emph{'John wants him to be a doctor', which of the following statements are CORRECT?}
Consider the following sentence: \textit{King Puru of the Pauravas, the lion, fought Alexander the emperor in the battlefield of Jhelum (Hydaspes).} Identify all the CORRECT lexico-semantic relations that appear in the given sentence from the options provided.
A study on the use of the sounds in a language L was carried out in three geographical regions across both adult speakers and children below the age of 6 years. The palatal glide [j] and the retroflex lateral [l] are variants (allophones) of the standard sound [l], a retroflex glide. The table below describes usage of the three sounds across the three regions and the two populations. Which of the following conclusions are valid given the results of the study? \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{|c|cc|cc|cc|} \hline Sounds in L & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{Region 1} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{Region 2} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{Region 3}
& Adults & Children & Adults & Children & Adults & Children
\hline [j] & 1\% & 75\% & 28\% & 80\% & 25\% & 78\%
[l] & 11\% & 23\% & 45\% & 18\% & 74\% & 22\%
[l] & 88\% & 2\% & 27\% & 2\% & 1\% & 0\%
\hline \end{tabular} \end{center}
The following data from Sinhala contains TWO pairs of sentences, 1 and 2. Each member of the pair is marked A and B and they differ in specific ways from each other. Identify the changes that are observed across each pair. \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{|c|l|l|} \hline 1. & A: \textit{lamea kataawa ahanəwa} & B: \textit{lameəṭə kataawa əhenəwa}
& child story hear & child story hear
& (The) child listens (actively) to the story. & (The) child hears the story (despite himself).
\hline 2. & A: \textit{malli nitərəmə aɳdənəwa} & B: \textit{malliṭə nitərəmə aɳdənəwa}
& brother always cries & brother always cries
& Brother always cries. & Brother always bursts into tears (despite himself).
\hline \end{tabular} \end{center}