- •Immediate Constituents Grammar, Descriptive Linguistics and Transformational Grammar were created by…
- •In European tradition the beginning of linguistics as a purposeful and systematic study of language is ascribed to …
- •In the epoch of Renaissance linguists began to study …
- •I ne seye no meant in earlier times .
- •In linguistics, syntax syn-, "together", and táxis, "arrangement" from
- •100 Bc, Greek gramma meant
- •In the 17th century the term “linguist” meant …
- •In January 1889, the name of the Association (fta)(the association to encourage the use of phonetic notation) was changed to…
- •@@@ Phonetics as a branch of Linguistics
- •In January 1889, the name of the Association (fta)(the association to encourage the use of phonetic notation) was changed to…
- •Vocal cords and glottis constitute:
- •Variants of phonemes are: a)Speech sounds b)Letters c)Allophones
- •Intonational Phonetic Association was founded in… and began publications of a special phonetic magazine….
- •Variants of phonemes are: a)Speech sounds b)Letters c)Allophones
- •Intonational Phonetic Association was founded in… and began publications of a special phonetic magazine….
- •@@@ Problems of phonostylistics
- •In what sphere is declamatory style used?
- •It is …. Whose accent became the Received Pronunciation of Britain.
- •In what style is the speed of utterance related to the degree of formality? The formal speech is usually slow, less formal situations entail acceleration of speed.
- •Vocalic [3:], consonantal [m] or mixed [3:m]. Are …
- •If the voice moves down by slides within stressed syllables the head is called... .
- •@@@ Contemporary Linguistics
- •What are the main two parts of theoretical grammar?
- •Ime of the action
- •Which of the following class of pronouns is the most disputable one:
- •What is the categorical meaning of a verb ?
- •I wanted to be free him and happy. What function does the phrase perform in the sentence:
- •What is a syntactic bond?
I ne seye no meant in earlier times .
A) I dislike
B) I will not say.
C)I don’t say.
D) I don’t see.
E) I don’t speak.
$$$ 54D
Which of the forms is possible word of English?
A)ftra
B)bfli
C)psapr
D) flib
E) ktleem
$$$ 55E
Describe the meaning of the new verb in “ mop the floor”
A) to humiliate smb.
B) to mop one’s brow
C) to kill smb. On the floor
D) to clean the floor dry
E)to clean the floor with a mop
$$$ 56D
Describe the meaning of the new verb in “ They winter in Hawaii”
A) They wish it were winter in Hawaii.
B) They make it snow in Hawaii.
C) They store food for winter in Hawaii.
D) They are in Hawaii for every winter.
E) They are afraid of being in Hawaii for winter.
$$$ 57B
Describe the meaning of the new verb in “ bottle the wine”
A) to keep wine in bottles
B) to put wine in bottles
C) to pass bottles of wine round
D) to hit the bottle
E)to flee from the bottle
$$$ 58C
Part of linguistic competence involves…
A) the ability to illustrate the extent to which grammars can be modified over time.
B) the usage of a small set contrastive sounds.
C) the ability to recognize whether novel utterances are acceptable or not.
D) the ability of arranging contrastive pairs of sounds.
E)the ability of establishing the languages revealing formal features of similarity.
$$$ 59C
Which of the following sentences is acceptable in English?
A) Max cleaned it up.
B) Max cleaned the garden up
C) Max cleaned up the garden.
D) Is the dog sleeping the bone again?
E)Wayne prepared Zena a cake.
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One of the main achievements of Old Hindu grammatical theory was …
A)The discovery of morphological composition of the word: the root, the stem, the suffix
B) the discovery of its kinship with other languages
C)its influence on the development of some European languages
D)The description of the active organs of speech
E)speech modification of consonant in connected speech
$$$ 61B
Hundreds of thousands of years of evolution created a special capacity for language in…
A)apes
B) humans
C) dogs
D) animals
E) newborns
$$$ 62A
The Immediate Constituents Grammar was developed by the representatives of…
A) The American School
B) The Prague School
C)The Copenhagen School
D)The Japanese School
E) The Chinese School
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The resemblance in grammatical forms of Indo-European languages prove …
A) that it is purely coincidental
B) that they are borrowed from one language to another
C) their comparativeness
D) their common origin
E) their correspondence to the Greek language
$$$ 64A
The Transformational Grammar was developed by the representatives of…
A) The American School
B) The Prague School
C)The Copenhagen School
D)The Japanese School
E) The Chinese School
$$$ 65B
The Russsian conjunction “да” resembles the Georgian conjunction [da] with the same meaning. This resemblance … .
A) is due to the borrowing of word from Latin
B) does not evidence the kinship
C) is due to the kinship
D) is because of the rise of the scientific linguistics
E) is because of the political and social factors
$$$ 66C
The Malay word [mata] meaning “eye” resembles the Modern Greek [mati] with the same meaning . This resemblance … .
A) is due to the borrowing of word from Latin
B) is due to the kinship does not evidence the kinship
C) does not evidence the kinship
D) is because of the rise of the scientific linguistics
E) is because of the political and social factors
$$$ 67D
The English “arithmetic”, the French “arithmetique” the Russian “арифметика” the Georgian “aritmetika” was borrowed from …
A) Ancient Greek
B) Old Hindu
C)Sanskrit
D)Latin
E) Germanic
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