Sunday, July 14, 2013

Introducing Linguistics - A Graphic Guide - Quiz

I have returned to the wonderful fairy tale world that is our library. Among the many books I have at my disposal, I decided to start with "A Graphic Guide to Linguistics" - because I love comics and this is a graphic guide, but also what better subject with which to start then the study of words and language.




These little books are jam-packed with information, so here comes one of the first of the quizzes I will make for the book. 




  1. Who took the first step in European Linguistics?
  2. Who was the first to classify between nouns, verbs, articles, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, adverbs, and participles?
  3. What other language used the Greek analysis to order their language accordingly?
  4. Which 17th century scholars put together a remarkably original "universal" grammar of French?
  5. Saussure said that "A linguistic sign is not a link between a thing and a name but between a _____ and a ______".
  6. While Saussure died without publishing his ideas, how were his ideas spread?
  7. What is the difference between synchronic and diachronic structures?
  8. Who was the first to make the connection between culture and language?
  9. Post-Bloomfield Structuralists were the first to?
  10. Generative Grammar was invented by whom?