A. Morphology                                                B. Syntax

C. Phonology                                                   D. Semantics

5. Whether a sentence is semantically meaningful is governed by rules called _______________.

A. selectional restrictions                                  B. grammatical rules

C. phrase structure rules                                    D. phonological rules

6. If a sentence is regarded as what people actually utter in the course of communication, it becomes a(n) _______________   .

A. clause                                                         B. speech

C. utterance                                                     D. predication

7.The discovery of Indo-European began with the work of ____________, who delivered an important paper in 1786 in which he suggested that Sanskrit bore a stronger affinity to Greek and Latin.

A. the British scholar Sir William Jones              B. the German linguist Franz Bopp

C. the Danish scholar Rasmus Rask                    D. the German scholar Jacob Grimm

8.The important characteristic of a speech community is that the members of the group must,

in some reasonable way, interact _______________with other members of the community.