Question

Which of the following is not a fallacy found by structural linguists in traditional grammar?

Answer 1

semantic fallacy

A “slam dunk” argument is likely the product of a fallacious syllogism. The word “slam dunk” has actually originated from the basketball games. This word is used to show people a forceful move in the game of basketball. The player puts the ball in the basket with full power and force. It is often considered a dramatic shot in the game. In literary sense, the word can be used to express violent actions as well. It can also be used to describe a vicious fight among individuals.     

Answer 2

The correct answer is C. Morphology fallacy

Explanation:

In linguistics, which is the study of language, the structural linguistics is a perspective on language in which language is not fixed but can be analyzed by describing the elements that are part of it and that create a structure. This perspective emerged in the 20th century and was against previous perspectives of language including the traditional perspective, which stated language was a fixed system with general laws that could describe all language.

Because of this, structural linguistics found the traditional perspective or traditional grammar had different fallacies or wrong reasoning and classified these invalid reasonings in three main fallacies, the semantic fallacy related to the meaning traditional grammar use to understand language and structural linguistics; the logical fallacy because traditional grammar considered there were universal laws to describe language and the normative fallacy because in traditional grammar there were norms for using the language, but according to the structural linguistics these ideas were invalid of fallacies. Considering this, the one that was not a fallacy found by structural linguistics in traditional grammar was the morphology fallacy, considering morphology refers to the structure of words and both structural and traditional linguistics had a similar perspective; also, the main fallacies found by linguistics were the semantic, logical and normative fallacy.