Экзаменационные тестовые задания по дисциплине «Tеория изучаемого языка» для специальности 050207 «переводческое дело»-

2-го курса.

Количество кредитов-3

Составитель: Мухатова Айгуль Даутбековна

@@@ The development of Linguistics before the 19^th century

$$$ 1A

What is an utterance?

A) It is an stretch of talk, by one person, before and after which there is silence on the part of the person.

B) It is a difference of two linguistic units occurring in the same environment.

C) It is a set of the neighboring elements.

D) It is a contrastive distribution of elements

E) It is a kind of communication between foreigners

$$$ 2C

What causes the splitting of the languages?

A) the resemblance of grammatical phenomena.

B) the existence of the historical comparative method

C) the division of language –speaking community due to the political and economic factors.

D) the existence of the historical contrastivity

E) the celebration of pagan holidays

$$$ 3A

According to Democritus the connection between words and the things they signify is…..

A) the result of human convention

B) the gift given to people by nature.

C) the most profound conception formulated in Greece.

D)the significant meaning of contrasted words

E) the character of language development

$$$ 4C

Why are the Middle Ages characterized as a time of stagnation for science?

A) Because Old Hindu became the universal language of Catholic church.

B) Because the study of Ancient Greece was resumed in Europe.

C) Because of linguistic theory being confined to biblical dogmas and the origin of language being ascribed to divine creation.

D) Because of linguistic theory being confined to philosophical ideas

E) Because of linguistic theory being confined to Latin study

$$$ 5C

Immediate Constituents Grammar, Descriptive Linguistics and Transformational Grammar were created by…

A) the Prague School

B) the Copenhagen school

C) the American school

D) the Hindu school

E) the Greek school

$$$ 6B

What do we call the branch of linguistics dealing with graphic images of language?

A) Semiotics

B) Graphemics

C) Lexicography

D) Grammar

E) Typology

$$$ 7C

Typology deals with the study of…

A) kindred languages

B) non-kindred languages

C) both kindred languages and non-kindred languages

D) varieties of English

E) Turkic languages

$$$ 8A

What language did the creators of the historical comparative method study?

A) They studied the languages belonging to the Indo-European family

B) They studied the languages belonging to the Finno-Ugrian family

C) They studied the languages belonging to the Balto-Slavonic family

D) They studied the languages belonging to the Turkish family

E) They studied the languages belonging to the Caucasian family

$$$ 9C

Three parts of speech: the name, the verb, the conjunction were established by…

A) Socrates and Plato

B) Barkhudarov

C) Aristotle

D) Panini

E) Aristarchus

$$$ 10B

Prakrit was the language of …

A) common people in Europe

B) plain people in ancient India

C) the upper caste in ancient India

D) aristocracy of ancient India

E) learned people in Europe

$$$ 11A

What were the weakest points of language study in Ancient Greece and Rome?

A) The problems of etymology and the morphological composition of the word

B) The problems of rhetoric and style

C) the problems of phonetical changes in the process of speaking

D) The problems of borrowings

E) The problems of stylistic devices and word formation

$$$ 12A

Leonard Bloomfield, the father of American Descriptive Linguistics called Panini’s grammar…

A) “one of the greatest monuments of human intelligence”

B) “ the exact completion of Classical Sanskrit “

C) “ the knowledge of hymns”

D) “the excellent work of art”

E) “ the best work about the correctness of names”

$$$ 13C

The resemblance in meaning and form of the word ‘arithmetics’ in English, ‘arithmetique’ in French, and Russian ‘арифметика’ is due to…

A) coincidence

B) the common origin

C) the borrowing of the word from Ancient Greek

D) the Scandinavian invasion

E) the appearance of dialects

$$$ 14B

The development of grammar in Alexandria was stimulated by..

A) the interpretation of Vedas

B) Homer’s poems

C) biblic texts

D) poems of court poets

E) orators’ speech

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In Ancient Rome the problems of style and rhetoric were paid much attention. The most prominent figure in this field was… .

A) Varro

B) Diomedes

C) Aristarchus

D) M.T.Cicero

E)Dionysius Thrux

$$$ 16B

Verbs can not be created from such words as noon, midnight, o’clock because they express …

A) the extended periods of time

B) the points in time

C) limits of time

D) time expression

E) time consuming

$$$ 17A

The presence of one and the same consonant sounds in all languages show that grammars are …. A) alike in basic ways

B) changeable over time

C) creative

D) subconcious

E) primitive

$$$ 18E

Linguistic competence is…

A) the ability of speakers to express their ideas

B) the ability of people to exchange information.

C) the ability of the people to deal with comprehension of sentences.

D) the ability of speakers to communicate with foreigners

E) the ability of speakers to produce and understand an unlimited number of utterances.

$$$ 19C

The kinship of such native words of Indo-European languages as Eng. brother, Geman bruder, Latin frater prove their … .

A) stability

B) changeability

C) common origin

D) originality

E) comparability

$$$ 20B

The term…. was used before the 20^th century for the science of language.

A) “ linguistics”

B) “philology”

C) “grammar”

D) lingua

E) transformational grammar

$$$ 21B

Historical Comparative method can be applied to…

A) spoken language

B) language with ancient writing

C) language with a long spoken tradition

D)languages studied typologically

E) all languages on earth

$$$ 22 B

One of the schools that created Glossematics is ..

A) The American School

B) The Prague School

C)The Copenhagen School

D)The Japanese School

E) The Chinese School

$$$ 23C

One of the schools that created Functional Linguistics is ..

A) The American School

B) The Prague School

C)The Copenhagen School

D)The Japanese School

E) The Chinese School

$$$ 24A

One of the schools that created DescriptiveLinguistics is ..

A) The American School

B) The Prague School

C)The Copenhagen School

D)The Japanese School

E) The Chinese School

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