Typology of Morphology System

1. What question doesn’t contrastive morphology consider?

   1. the identifying classes of words and their general lexico-grammatical meaning;

   2. classes of paradigms pertaining to a national part of speech;

   3. the morphological categories and their manifestation in the contrasted languages;

   4. the parts of speech, their general implicit and dependent grammatical meanings.

2. The notion of contrastive typology “agglutination” means…

   1. confrontation of two or more truncated words or roots of words;

   2. reversion short words from longer words;

   3. mechanical adding of one or more affixal morphemes to the root morpheme;

   4. reduction of one or two affixal morphems in pre-position or post-position.

3. What can’t suppletivity express in English and Ukrainian?

   1. sex distinctions;

   2. semantical meanings of notionals;

   3. different categorical meanings of notionals;

   4. degrees of comparison in some qualitative adjectives and adverbs.

4. Where doesn’t suppletivity of pronouns find its expression in the contrasted languages?

   1. at the level of paradigmatic word-forms;

   2. at the level of morphological forms;

   3. at the level of the lexico-grammatical class of words;

   4. at the level of different case forms.

5. Who distinguishes between “parts of speech” and “classes of words” in English?

   1. C. Fries;

   2. C.T. Hockett;

   3. S. Greenbaum;

   4. M.G. Blokh.

6. What are the main classes in English and Ukrainian?

   1. concrete and collective nouns;

   2. class nouns and abstract ones;

   3. concrete nouns and proper names;

   4. common nouns and proper names.

7. What kind of a suffix is numerous in Ukrainian but miss in English?

   1. borrowed suffix;

   2. agent suffix;

   3. augmentative suffix;

   4. diminutive suffix.

8. What group of nouns doesn’t coincide in English and Ukrainian?

   1. nouns of remnants;

   2. abstract notions;

   3. summation plurals;

   4. geographic names.

9. What part of speech has the greatest number of grammatical categories in common in English and Ukrainian?

   1. noun;

   2. adverb;

   3. verb;

   4. adjective.

10. What group of verbs is unknown in English?

a) objective verbs;

b) terminative verbs;

c) durative verbs;

d) actively-objectless verbs.

11. What groups of verbs don’t belong to incomplete predication?

a) auxiliary verbs;

b) reflexive verbs;

c) modal verbs;

d) subjective verbs.

12. Point out the morphological categories which are realized only analytically in English but synthetically and analytically in Ukrainian.

a) the categories of person and number;

b) the category of mood;

c) the category of tense;

d) the category of voice.

13. What groups of adverbs belong to qualitative adverbs in both languages?

a) the adverbs of cause and purpose;

b) the adverbs of manner;

c) the adverbs of time;

d) the adverbs of place.

14. Pertaining to English only is the combinability of statives with…

a) the infinitive;

b) the noun;

c) the gerund;

d) the prepositionless nominal complement.

15. Find the row, where all modal words express various shades of certainty.

a) no doubt, indeed, possibly;

b) perhaps, surely, assuredly;

c) undoubtedly, unfortunately, happily;

d) assuredly, certainly, really.

16. What type of conjunction is pertaining to English only?

a) causal conjunction;

b) resultative conjunction;

c) adversative conjunction;

d) disjunctive conjunction.

17. Such particles as but, just, still, yet, simply etc. correspond to…

a) affirmative particles;

b) interrogative particles;

c) connecting particles;

d) intensifying particles.

18. What interjections of sounds cannot be treated as interjections?

a) Shh! Shoo! Hush!

b) Ooh! Whoa! Hi-up!

c) Dub-dub! Mew! Moo!

d) Nuf! Hoa! Oh!