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Linguistics Previous Year Questions

Practice Linguistics previous year questions organised from real papers, with year-wise coverage and clear topic navigation.

5Papers
5Years
196Questions
7Topics

Linguistics question pattern

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Questions by year

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Difficulty distribution

How the classified questions are distributed by difficulty.

Medium 106 54.1%
Easy 82 41.8%
Hard 8 4.1%

Question type distribution

MCQ, numerical, multiple-select and other formats found in these papers.

MCQ 107 54.6%
MSQ 83 42.3%
Numerical Answer Type (NAT) 6 3.1%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

Linguistics
196 Qs

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

Levels of Grammatical Analysis (The primary components of grammar)
115 Qs
Typology and Universals (Language Classification)
17 Qs
Language and Linguistics (Fundamental Concepts)
16 Qs
Sociolinguistics (Language and Society)
15 Qs
Applied Linguistics (Linguistics in the Real World)
13 Qs
Historical Linguistics (Language Change)
12 Qs
Methods of Analysis (How to Do Linguistics)
4 Qs

Subtopic coverage

Top subtopics inside this exact selection.

Sound Systems
27 Qs
Syntactic Analysis
21 Qs
Meaning in Context (Pragmatics)
18 Qs
Word Formation
17 Qs
Speech Production and Perception
10 Qs
Literal Meaning (Semantics)
6 Qs
Language Variation
6 Qs
Bi- and Multilingualism
6 Qs
Sentence Structure
6 Qs
Language Universals
6 Qs
South Asian Languages
6 Qs
Building Blocks
6 Qs
The Science of Language
5 Qs
Sound Changes over time
5 Qs
Classifying Languages
5 Qs
Clinical Linguistics
5 Qs
Computational Linguistics
4 Qs
Language and Culture
3 Qs
Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Language Teaching
3 Qs
Knowledge vs. Use
3 Qs
Forms of Language and Description versus Prescription
3 Qs
Reconstruction
3 Qs
Language and Policy
3 Qs
Language Contact and Borrowing
3 Qs
Major Theories
2 Qs
Data Collection
2 Qs
History of Linguistics
2 Qs
Morphological Theories
1 Qs
Psycholinguistics
1 Qs
The Mental Dictionary
1 Qs
Grammar and Meaning Change
1 Qs
Data Analysis
1 Qs
Corpora
1 Qs

Paper coverage

Question coverage for the most populated papers. Every active PYP paper remains listed below.

Humanities & Social Sciences - Linguistics (XH-C3) 2026
39 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 2025
39 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 2024
39 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 2023
39 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 2022
40 Qs

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Levels of Grammatical Analysis (The primary components of grammar)

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115 questions5 papers5 years

Typology and Universals (Language Classification)

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17 questions4 papers4 years

Language and Linguistics (Fundamental Concepts)

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16 questions5 papers5 years

Sociolinguistics (Language and Society)

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15 questions5 papers5 years

Applied Linguistics (Linguistics in the Real World)

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13 questions5 papers5 years

Historical Linguistics (Language Change)

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12 questions5 papers5 years

Methods of Analysis (How to Do Linguistics)

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4 questions3 papers3 years

Included previous year papers

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Humanities & Social Sciences - Linguistics (XH-C3) 20262026
39 questions in this view		2026
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 20252025
39 questions in this view		2025
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 20242024
39 questions in this view		2024
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 20232023
39 questions in this view		2023
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 20222022
40 questions in this view		2022
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Sample previous year questions

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1
2022 · Linguistics · Unclassified
Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 2022
A particular school management wants to contact all parents, all businessmen and all engineers. The following statistics are available with the school.
Businessmen = 50
Engineers = 25
Parents = 2500
Businessmen who are engineers = 0
Businessmen who are parents = 25
Engineers who are parents = 15
The number of people needs to be contacted are ______ .
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2023 · Linguistics · Language and Linguistics (Fundamental Concepts) · Forms of Language and Description versus Prescription
Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 2023
In a writing system, if each unique grapheme represents a unique morpheme/word, the writing system is known as ______________.
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2024 · Linguistics · Levels of Grammatical Analysis (The primary components of grammar) · Sentence Structure
Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 2024
Which one of the following is an error of grammatical competence?
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2025 · Linguistics · Historical Linguistics (Language Change) · Sound Changes over time
Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 2025

Choose the option that demonstrates Grassmann’s law of sound change.

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2026 · Linguistics · Applied Linguistics (Linguistics in the Real World) · Computational Linguistics
Humanities & Social Sciences - Linguistics (XH-C3) 2026
The assumption that the probability of occurrence of a word in a string depends ONLY on the preceding word is called a ______ assumption.
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2022 · Linguistics · Language and Linguistics (Fundamental Concepts) · Language and Culture
Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 2022
Linguistic determinism is best captured in __________.
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