In European tradition the beginning of linguistics as a purposeful and systematic study of language is ascribed to …

A) Ancient India

B)Ancient China

C)Middle India

D) Ancient Greece

E) Middle Greece

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What was the central philosophical problem of language in Ancient Greece?

A) The origin and the nature of human speech

B) The interpretations of Homer’s poems

C) The appearance of main schools of linguistic problems

D) The problems of functional words

E)The problem of deviations.

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According to Heraclitus ….

A. language is the result of human convention

B. language was created by people

C. language is inherent in nature and is given to people by nature

D. the nature of the sentence is different from separate words

E. language is the result of connecting words in the process of speaking

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According to materialists language was created by ….

A) modern grammarians

B) people themselves

C) philosophers

D) linguists

E.)phonostylisticians

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What parts of speech did Aristotle discriminate?

A) the verb, the pronoun, the adjective

B)the particle, the article, the modal words

C) the adjective, the participle, the conjunction

D) the conjunction, the name, the verb

E)the noun, the adverb, the infinitive of verbs

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Aristotle called “names”

A) The forms expressing both the subject and the predicate

B) the adjectives, the forms expressing copulas

C) different functional words and forms

D) The infinitive of verbs, the gerund

E)the nominative case of nouns, adjectives, participles

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Who introduced the logical notions of subject and Predicate in grammar?

A) Aristotle

B) Panini

C) Trubetskoy

D) Arakin

E.)Vassyliev

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Where was the grammatical teaching completed?

A. in the Soviet Union

B. in Alexandria

C. in India

D. in China

E. in Great Britain

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Who was the initiator of grammatical theory?

A) Aristotle

B)Democritus

C) Heraclitus

D) Plato

E) Lancelot and Arno

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What linguistic views did Plato express in his works?

A) grammatical categories in terms of logic; position of the subject in a sentence

B) direct and oblique grammatical forms

C) notions of subject and Predicate

D) the theory of the sentence and the theory of word classes

E) The conception of the vocabulary as a set of naming elements and the sentence as the result of connecting words in speech; the minimum sentence consists of a named verb

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What was the progress of grammarians of Alexandrian period in the study of phonetics

A)Eight parts of speech were established grammatical categories were described

B)Tables of consonants and vowels were made

C)stylistic use of intonation

D)speech sounds were classified into vowels, semi-vowels, non-vowels, some phonetic changes in the process of speaking, the difference between long and short vowels

E)rhythm, rhyme, intonation were observed

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Who were the most prominent Roman grammarians?

A)M.T. Cicero, Varro, Donatus, Priscian

B)P.S. Pallas, J.S. Vater, J.C. Adelung

C)Franz Bopp, Jacob Grimm

D)M. T. Cicero, J.J. Scaliger, R.K. Rask

E)Franz Bopp, Varro, J.C. Adelung

$$$ 37B

What language became the language of Catholic Church in the Middle Ages?

A)Greek

B)Latin

C)Hindu

D)Arabic

E)Hebrew

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….. language became the language of scholastic mediaeval science

A) Greek

B)Hindu

C)Latin

D)Arabic

E)Hebrew

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The most famous linguistic work of the epoch of Renaissance written by Lancelot and Arno was called ….

A)Mithridates or General linguistics

B)Dialogue

C)About the Correctness of Names

D)General and Rational Grammar

E)Binary Relations in Morphology

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