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MEG-04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE SOLVED ASSIGNMENT
Programme: MEG
Assignment Code: MEG-04/TMA/2017-18
| 1 | Write short notes on any two of the following: | ||
| i | Theories of the Origin of Language | ||
| ii | The Great Vowel Shift | ||
| iii | Criteria for classification of consonants | ||
| iv | The difference between simple, complex and compound words | ||
| 2 | Write in detail, giving examples whenever appropriate, on stress and rhythm of connected speech in English. | ||
| 3 | Describe some of the minor processes of word formation in English and theircontribution to the enrichment of the English word-store. | ||
4. What is a standard language? Discuss in detail the process of language standardization. 20
5. Analyse the following extract of a poem by Tennyson using the tools given to you in
| Block 9 of your Course. |
Ring out, wild bells
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
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