Match List I with List II:

List I: Term	List II: Meaning
A. Collocation	I. A term borrowed in the 1960s from mathematics into linguistics by Noam Chomsky
B. Inflected	II. The contrast between positive and negative in sentences, clauses and phrases
C. Polarity	III. A habitual association between particular words
D. Generative	IV. Of a word that takes various forms to show its grammatical role

1. AA-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
2. BA-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
3. CA-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
4. DA-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I

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Correct answer: B. A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I

Explanation

Collocation – words that habitually go together ('strong tea'); inflected – a word that changes form for tense, number etc. ('walk/walked'); polarity – positive vs negative; generative – Chomsky's term (from mathematics) for a grammar that explicitly 'generates' all grammatical sentences.

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