Discussion
Assertion I : The words 'this', 'that', 'the', 'a' in the context of '____ girl' are in paradigmatic relation. Assertion II : The words 'this', 'that', 'the' and 'a' in the context of '___ girl' are in syntagmatic relation.
Codes :
Answer: C
(I) is true and (II) is false.
The words 'this', 'that', 'the' and 'a' can each fill the same slot before 'girl', so they stand in a choice relation, that is a paradigmatic relation. A syntagmatic relation is the relation of items that occur together in a sequence, as 'this' and 'girl', and not of items that replace one another.
So the first assertion holds and the second does not.
A paradigmatic relation is one of substitution and choice, while a syntagmatic relation is one of combination in a chain, and the example in the stem shows the first.
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