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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination

MEG-4 : ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

Time: 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 100

1. Write short notes on any two of the following. Illustrate your answer with examples : (25)

(i) Theories on the origin of language
(ii) The 1957 Model of T.G. Grammar
(iii) The three periods which went into the making of Modern English
(iv) Free and bound morphemes

2. Describe and classify the English vowels. (25)

3. Mention briefly the processes of word formation in English. Discuss 'Clipping' as a morphological device giving at least five examples. (25)

4. What tests would you use for the identification of a syntactic constituent ? (25)

5. What do you understand by bilinguation ? Describe the differences between code-mixing; and code-switching with examples from English and your native language. (25)

6. What do you understand by the term 'Indianization' of English ? What are the devices used for this process ? (25)

7. Attempt a stylistic analysis of the following poem focusing specifically on imagery, rhyme, alliteralion and repetition. Comment on any other features that you may think significant. (25)

The splendor falls on castle walls
   And snowy summits old in story;
The long Light shakes across the lakes,
   And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

O, hark, O hear ! how thin and clear,
   And thinner, clearer, farther going !
O, sweet and far from cliff and scar
   The horns of Elfland faintly blowing !
Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

O love, they die in yon rich sky,
   They faint on hill or field or river;
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
   And grow for ever and for ever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.