Sea Fever 1) Who wrote the poem ‘Sea Fever’? Ans:- John Masefield wrote the poem ’Sea Fever’. 2) What was the favourite place of the poet? Ans:- To see the sea was the favourite place of the poet. 3) What do you mean by steer? Ans:- Steer means to control the direction of movement. 4) What was the colour of mist on the sea’s face? Ans:- The colour of the mist was grey. 5) What thing did not the poet deny? Ans:- The poet can not deny the call of running tide. 6) Write the name of Sea-bird? Ans:- Sea-gull is the name of a sea-bird. 7) Who wants to live a gypsy life? Ans:- The poet wants to become a gypsy life. 8) Write the name of the sea-animal? Ans:- Whale, a name of the sea-animal. 9) What do you mean by whetted knife? Ans:- Whetted knife means sharpened knife. 10) What kind of day does the poet prefer for siling? Ans:- The poet prefers va...
Top 10 Linguists of All Time
(1) Noam Chomsky (1928-present) revolutionized the philosophy of language as well as the formal methods used to describe linguistic structures. Most schools of linguistic thought either directly incorporate his views on the generative nature of syntactic structure, or stand in reaction to it.
(2) Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) was the first linguist to distinguish between synchronic and diachronic analyses of language: how languages function today versus how they evolved over time. He is also considered the father of semiotics.
(3) Pāṇini (ca. 4th century BC) was a profoundly influential Sanskrit grammarian who formulated rules of morphological analysis that were more advanced than any western linguist until the 20th century.
(4) Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) developed many of de Saussure's ideas about synchronic linguistics, including introducing the distinction between phonetic and phonological representations of languages, as well as the notion of linguistic markedness and feature theory.
(5) Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) was the first modern European linguist to identify language as a rule-governed system rather than a hodge-podge collection of words and phrases. Besides advancing our understanding of Indo-European languages, he was also one of the first to investigate the notion of subtrate phenomena by identifying place names in Spain and France where Basque used to be spoken.
(6) Edward Sapir (1884-1939) helped to establish that non-European languages have structures as complex as European ones, and sometimes more so. He helped to document dozens of native languages of the Americas (especially the Athabaskan family), established by and large which were related to which, and became famous for his investigations of the relationship between language and thought, known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (or Linguistic relativity).
(7) Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) made major contributions to the study of Indo-European, Austronesian and especially Algonquian languages, but he is best known for his popularization of scientific approaches to language, particularly through Structural linguistics and later Behaviorism.
(8) Joseph Greenberg (1915-2001) became best known for his contributions to the study of language typology (how language varies across time and space), but became controversial later in life for the methods of mass-comparison that used in reconstructing the proto-families of Africa and the Americas.
(9) Karl Brugmann (1849-1919) helped to establish the systematicity of sound change as a feature of language evolution through time and began to make linguistics independent of classical philology.
(10) Sibawayh (760-796) wrote the first grammar of Arabic and was the first grammarian (outside India) to actually analyze the grammar rather than merely describe it. He backed up his claims with empirical data rather than a priori theorizing about what should be correct or incorrect, and set the standard for much grammatical reasoning for the next thousand years.
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