Linguistics and Lexicology Proficiency Exam

1. The main sources of linguistic and lexicologists' data are:

• a. Only corpora
• b. Dictionaries and corpora
• c. Intuitions and corpora
• d. Intuitions, questionnaires, and corpora

2. Dictionaries:

• a. Never include nonce-formations or non-existent words
• b. Are always alphabetically ordered
• c. Answers "a" and "b" are correct.
• d. None of the above is correct.

3. Seal (a sea animal) and (to) seal (to close tightly) are:

• a. Polysemous words one in relation to the other.
• b. Full homonyms.
• c. Partial homonyms
• d. Conversion

4. Substitutability is used as a diagnosis for:

• a. Polysemy
• b. Synonymy
• c. Homonymy
• d. Antonymy

Historical and Applied Linguistics

5. Which of the following statements is true?

• a. Fast and quick have always been synonymous.
• b. Nice was a synonym of ignorant at some stage in the history of English.
• c. Nice is a synonym of happy.
• d. None of the above.

6. Elicitation is used by:

• a. Lexicologists in order to obtain general data for linguistic corpora
• b. Lexicographers in order to obtain general data for dictionaries
• c. Lexicologists in order to obtain specific data about some aspect of language
• d. Linguists as a means to extract data from corpora

7. When linguists lemmatize a corpus, they:

• a. Mark word boundaries
• b. Tag it, that is, they identify parts of speech
• c. Group words into word forms
• d. Mark textual structure and document headers

Morphology and Lexicography

8. Which is the correct group of synonym triplets?

• a. Ask, question, interrogate
• b. Ask, question, request
• c. Ask, request, interrogate
• d. Ask, demand, request
• e. Ask, demand, interrogate

9. Inflectional morphemes in English indicate:

• a. Tense, person, number, case, and (probably) gender
• b. Tense, person, voice, and number
• c. Only number
• d. Only number and gender
• e. None of the answers above is correct

10. Lexicography may be defined as:

• a. An area of language study concerned with the nature, meaning, history, and use of words.
• b. The theoretical component of lexicology.
• c. A branch of linguistics which uses morphology as the main source of information in order to create dictionaries.
• d. None of the above is correct.