In the epoch of Renaissance linguists began to study …

A)Arabic, Hebrew and the languages of “exotic” countries

B)The language of Finno- Ugrian family

C)Latin and Greek

D)Chinese, Japanese

E)Hindu and French

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Rig-Veda means ….

A)the knowledge of divinity

B)the knowledge of hymns

C)the knowledge of literature

D)sacred language

E)correctness of names

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The Vedas are ….

A) the old biblical texts

B) the texts about pagan holidays

C)old rites and habits

D) the old religious texts, collections of hymns, songs, ritual formulas and incantations

E)the texts about grammar rules

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Old Hindu “Veda” means …

A)Tradition

B)ritual

C)knowledge

D)hymn poem

E)sons composed by Greeks

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What linguistic dispute took place among the Alexandrian Scholars?

A) about the origin of Greek

B) about the origin of Latin

C) about analogy and anomaly

D) about concrete things and abstract ideas

E)about style and rhetoric

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What is Sanskrit?

A)the language of plain people in Ancient Greek

B)the language of lower caste in Ancient India

C)the best grammar rule

D)systematic study of language

E)the learned Old Hindu language of the upper caste

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“Eight Readings” written by Panini consists of eight books containing

A)short grammatical rules given in versus

B)phonetic symbols for letters of Old Hindu

C)runic letters

D)parallel lists of words

E)short history of the development of Old Hindu

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The comparative study of Sanskrit and European languages

A)the historical comparative method

B)Descriptive Linguistics

C)Typological studies of language

D)Functional Linguistics

E)Glossematics

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… formed the part of a great family of kindred languages

A)Arabic, Turkish and some European languages

B)Hebrew, Vedic and Some Caucasian languages

C)Latin, Vedic, Sanskrit, Greek

D)Latin, Sanskrit, Greek

E)Arabic, Turkish, Georgian

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Who gave the oldest grammatical descriptions of Sanskrit?

A)Meillet

B)Fortunatov

C) Panini

D)Varro

E)Cicero

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Nonvocal cognitive aspects of speech are..

A) Rhyme, rhythm, melody, human voice

B) intonation, assimilation, elision, sound reduction,

C) word formation, sentence building, interpretation of meaning

D) lips, tongue, oral cavity, lungs

E)experiments, situations, ready-made messages

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What is language?

A) It is a system of speech sounds.

B) It is a means of systematizing grammar rules.

C) It is a means of communication, self-expression, a source of ethnic pride.

D) It is a whole set of regularities determining the combination of naming means in the formation of utterances as the embodiment of thinking process.

E)It is a means of studying and scientifically analysing the mechanisms of grammatical formation out of words in the process of speech making

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All human languages in the world…

A)are creative, have a grammar, change over time.

B) are spoken, have free ordering of words, use nonstandard variety of English.

C) are creative, don’t change grammatically

D) have agood or bad grammar, do not work for their speakers.

E) were better and now they are deteriorated.

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