- •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…
- •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
- •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?
In linguistics, syntax syn-, "together", and táxis, "arrangement" from
A) Sanskrit
B) Latin
C) Germanic
D) Old Hindu
E) Ancient Greek
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Arabic grammar and Hebrew grammar developed during … A) the Middle Ages B) the second world war C) in the 19th century D) in the 20th century E) in the 4th century
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Linguistics in ….derives its impetus from the need to correctly recite and interpret the Vedic texts.
A) ancient Greece
B) ancient Ukraine
C) ancient India
D) ancient China
E) ancient Indonesia
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100 Bc, Greek gramma meant
A) sign
B) envelope
C)rule
D) letter
E) meaning
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Through the 19th century, European linguistics centered on the comparative history of the ….with a concern for finding their common roots and tracing their development.
A) English
B) French
C) Germanic
D) Indo-European languages,
E) Indo-Iranian
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The book “The structure of English “was written by…
A) Zellig S.Harris
B) Ch.Carpenter Fries
C)Cristian Rask
D)Ferdinand-de-Saussure
E) F.Fortunatov
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Who understood the language as a workable system of signals, that is linguistic forms by means of which people communicate; “ .. every language consists of a number of linguistic signals, linguistic forms”.
A) A) Zellig S.Harris
B) Ch.Carpenter Fries
C) L.Bloomfield
D) Ferdinand-de-Saussure
E) F.F.Fortunatov
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In the 17th century the term “linguist” meant …
A) “a student of grammar”
B) “a post-graduate of philology”
C) “a student of philology”
D) “a doctor of philology”
E) “ a proffessor”
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…. is now the usual academic term in English for the scientific study of language. A) "Lexicology" B) "Stylistics" C) "Grammar" D) "Etymology" E) "Linguistics"
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Historical linguistics studies the history and evolution of languages through… .
A) the comparative method.
B) the distributional method
C)the transformational method
D) the tree diagramme
E) the candelabra diagramme
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Historical linguistics is also called …
A) “Sociolinguistics”
B) “etymology”
C) "synchronic linguistics"
D) "diachronic linguistics"
E) “anthropological linguistics”
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Such languages as Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, Celtic, anfd germanic languages are considered to be kindred and called…
A) Sanskrit
B) Romanic
C) Indo-European
D) Common Germanic
E) Parent Germanic
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Linguistic universals are…
A) "deep structure" and "surface structure" of sentences.
B) means that the grammar "assigns a structural description" to the sentence
C) the study of intensive meaning in words and sentences
D) properties all languages have in common
E) the rules governing the behavior of mathematical systems
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A small group of language teachers formed an association to encourage the use of phonetic notation in schools to help children acquire realistic pronunciations of foreign languages and also to aid in teaching reading to young children.
A) 1886, in Paris
B) 1889, in Germany
C) 1914, in Paris
D) 1922, ion Russia
E) 1897,Wittemberg
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