Carcass wrote:
Q2
2. Which one of the following can be correctly inferred from the passage?
A. Inherent in Tolkāppiyar 's systemized approach are such linguistic concepts as the phoneme, the morpheme, and the root.
False. Those concepts were in Panini's work NOT the second linguist
B. Linguistic inquiry is pursued by a wide variety of language specialists, who may not be in harmonious agreement.
The passage does not talk or describe this at all. No fights among scholars
C. Eastern linguists and Western linguists developed divergent concepts of the phoneme, the morpheme and the root.
The passage DOES NOT provide such information
D. Western linguists disagreed with the earliest linguists who categorized Sanskrit and Tamil.
No false. western scholars just discovered Panini centuries after
E. Western linguists were much later than Eastern linguists in formulating basic linguistic theories.
Yes. true and this is what is stated in the passage and the contrary of D which is false
Is this the sentence stated in support of option E?
' Inherent in its analytic approach are the concepts of the phoneme, the morpheme, and the root, only documented by Western linguists some two millennia later'. If yes, how can we infer that the concepts of phoneme, morpheme and root are 'basic linguistic theories'? I thought they are just some concepts of a linguistic approach not basic theories. Are basic theories and concepts of an approach same? How to answer such questions?