
- •Теоретическая грамматика
- •Morphology
- •Metonymy
- •63. The morphological level has two level units:
- •133. In accordance with these criteria (semantic, morphological and syntactic) English words form the following classes:
- •136. One of the chief features characterizing an analytical language is….
- •Morpheme
- •Morphology
- •Lexicology
63. The morphological level has two level units:
the `morpheme and the word.
the `morpheme and the word-group.
the word-group and the word.
the `morpheme and the sentence.
the sentence and the word.
64. The syntactical level has two level units:
A) the word-group and the sentence.
B) the `morpheme and the word-group.
C) the word-group and the word.
D) the `morpheme and the sentence.
E) the text and the sentence.
65. The supersyntactical level has
A) the text as its level unit.
B) the word-group.
C) the word-group.
D) the sentence.
E) the text and the sentence.
66. Aristotle was the first ...
A) who described the syntactic structure of a sentence.
B) who described the analytic structure of a sentence.
C) who described the semantic structure of a sentence.
D) who described the functional structure of a sentence.
E) who described the linguistic structure of a sentence.
67. In the West, the school of thought that came to be known as ... .
A) "traditional grammar"
B) "modern grammar"
C) "practical grammar"
D) "shift grammar"
E) "rhetorical grammar"
68. "traditional grammar" began with the work of ... .
A) Dionysius Thrax.
B) Panini
C) W. Bullokar
D) H. Sweet
E) O. Jespersen
69. Moscow Linguistic Circle founded in … .
A) 1915
B) 1916
C) 1945
D) 1933
E) 1943
70. By Chomsky, when a child is born he… .
A) is already aware of a certain language
B) is already kind of figurative language
C) is already proud of mother tongue
D) is already aware of a history of a language
E) is already aware of a syntactical system of a language
71. The most important and valuable contribution of the Prague Linguistic Circle was … .
A) the distinction between theme and rheme
B) the description of the syntactic structure of a sentence
C) the distinction, between phoneme and morpheme
D) the distinction, between grammar and lexicology
E) the distinction, between theory and practice of grammar
72. The distinction between language and speech was made by ... .
A) Ferdinand de Saussure
B) Wilhelm von Humboldt
C) Port Royal
D) S.G.Ter-Minasova
E) P.G.Kozlov
73. Paradigmatic relations can be of three types:
A) semantic, formal and functional.
B) semantic, formal and pragmatic.
C) synthetic, formal and functional.
D) semantic, analytical and functional.
E) pragmatic, synthetic and functional.
74. Syntagmatic relations can be of three types:
A) coordinate, subordinate and predicative.
B) semantic, formal and pragmatic.
C) synthetic, formal and functional.
D) semantic, analytical and functional.
E) pragmatic, synthetic and functional.
75. Indo-European languages are classified into two structural types –
A) synthetic and analytic.
B) agglutinative and analytic.
C) elective and analytic.
D) synthetic and agglutinative .
E) elective and agglutinative.
76. Morphology deals with ... .
A) the internal structure of words and peculiarities of their grammatical categories
B) the semantic structure of words
C) the analytic structure of words and peculiarities of their grammatical description
D) synthetic structure of words and peculiarities of their articulation
E) lexical structure of words and peculiarities of their transcription
77. Lexical meaning is ... .
A) the individual meaning of the word
B) the meaning of the whole class
C) a whole set of regularities determining the combination of naming units in the formation of utterances
D) a means of storing and forming ideas as reflections of reality and exchanging them in the process of human communication
E) the meaning of a subclass
78.Grammatical meaning is ... .
A) the meaning of the whole class or a subclass
B) the individual meaning of the word
C) a whole set of regularities determining the combination of naming units in the formation of utterances
D) a means of storing and forming ideas as reflections of reality and exchanging them in the process of human communication
E) the distinctive meaning of the word
79. The grammatical meaning may be ... .
A) explicit and implicit
B) expressive and implicit
C) explicit and impressive
D) expressive and impressive
E) concrete and abstract
80. The implicit grammatical meaning may be of two types –
A) general and dependent.
B) expressive and impressive.
C) concrete and common.
D) expressive and impressive.
E) concrete and explicit.
81. The objective category of time finds its representation…
A) in the grammatical category of tense.
B) in the grammatical category of voice.
C) in the grammatical category of aspect.
D) in the grammatical category of gender.
E) in the grammatical category of number.
82. There are ... approaches to the problem of the number of parts of speech.
A) four
B) six
C) five
D) eleven and thirteen
E) twelve
83. Name four approaches to the problem of the number of parts of speech:
A) classical (logical-inflectional), functional, distributional and complex.
B) classical (logical-inflectional), referential, distributional and complex.
C) classical (logical-inflectional), functional, analytical and complex.
D) classical (logical-inflectional), functional, distributional and static.
E) common, functional, distributional and complex.
84. In modern linguistics, by this approach parts of speech are discriminated according to three criteria: semantic, formal and functional.
A) complex
B) synhetical
C) classical
D) distributional
E) analytical
85. The classical parts of speech theory ... .
A) goes back to ancient times
B) goes back to Middle English Period
C) goes back to Elizabeth century
D) goes back to Enlightenment
E) goes back to Renaissance
86. Functional approach to the problem of the number of parts of speech was developed by ... .
A) Henry Sweet
B) Ferdinand de Saussure
C) Wilhelm von Humboldt
D) Ch. Fries
E) S.G.Ter-Minassova
87. A distributional approach to the problem of the number of parts of speech was developed by ... .
A) Charles Fries
B) Henry Sweet
C) Wilhelm von Humboldt
D) Port Royal
E) Ferdinand de Saussure
88. Objective category of quantity finds its representation …
A) in the grammatical category of number.
B) in the grammatical category of case.
C) in the grammatical category of gender.
D) in the grammatical category of voice.
E) in the grammatical category of mood.
89. According to the type of nomination nouns may be ... .
A) proper and common
B) animate and inanimate
C) countable and uncountable
D)abstract and conceptual
E)proper and individual
90. According to the form of existence nouns may be ... .
A) animate and inanimate
B) proper and common
C) human and non-human
D)abstract and conceptual
E)proper and individual
91. Animate nouns fall into ... .
A) human and non-human
B) animate and inanimate
C) proper and common
D )abstract and conceptual
proper and individual
92. According to their quantitative structure nouns can be .. .
A) countable and uncountable
B) animate and inanimate
C) proper and common
D)abstract and conceptual
E)proper and individual
93. In accordance with the morphological structure of the stems all nouns can be classified into:
A) simple, derived, compound and composite.
B) complex, derived, compound and composite.
C) simple, common, compound and composite.
D) simple, derived and composite.
E) complex, common, compound and composite.
94. The singular form of number of nouns may denote:
oneness, generalization and indiscreteness.
the existence of several objects and generalization.
generalization and the inner discreteness.
the existence of several objects and oneness.
indiscreteness and the inner discreteness.
95. The plural form of number of nouns may denote:
the existence of several objects and the inner discreteness.
the existence of several objects and generalization.
generalization and the inner discreteness.
the existence of several objects and oneness.
indiscreteness and the inner discreteness.
96. Case expresses … .
A) the relation of a word to another word in the word-group or sentence
B) the relation of a sound to another sound in the sound -group or sentence
C) the relation of a sentence to another sentence in the sentence -group or sentence
D) the relation of a syllable to another syllable in the syllable -group or syllable
E) the relation of a text to another text in the text -groups or text itself
97. The verb possesses the following grammatical categories:
A) tense, aspect, voice, mood, person, number, finitude and phase.
B) aspect, voice, mood, person, number, finitude and phase.
C) tense, voice, mood, person, number, finitude and phase.
D) tense, aspect, mood, person, number, finitude and phase.
E) tense, aspect, voice, number, finitude and phase.
98. The category of tense is a verbal category that reflects ... .
A) the objective category of time
B) the objective category of concepts
C) the objective category of properties
D) the objective category of qualities
E) the objective category of quantities
99. The Transformational grammar as a method of analyzing sentences was first suggested by ...
A) American scholar Zelling Harris
B) British scholar Henry Sweet
C) Swiss scholar Ferdinand de Saussure
D) German scholar Wilhelm von Humboldt
E) Russian scholar S.G.Ter-Minassova
100. Constructional analysis of syntactic units was initiated by ... .
A) Prof. G.Pocheptsov
B) Prof. Henry Sweet
C) Prof. Ferdinand de Saussure
D) Prof. Wilhelm von Humboldt
E) Prof. S.G.Ter-Minasova
101. Constructional analysis of syntactic units was initiated by Prof. G.Pocheptsov in ....
A) 1971
B)1917
C) 1961
D) 1968
E) 1970
102. Speech Act Theory was first introduced ... .
A) by John Austin
A) by G.Pocheptsov
B) by Henry Sweet
C) by Ferdinand de Saussure
D) by Wilhelm von Humboldt
103. The syntactic units can go into three types of syntactic relations:
A) Coordination, subordination and predication.
B)Transformation, subordination and predication.
C) Coordination, neglecting and predication.
D) Coordination, subordinative and predication.
E) Coordination and predication.
104. Syntactic meaning ... .
А) is the way in which separate word meanings are combined to produce meaningful word-groups and sentences
B) may be described as the distributional formula of the unit (pattern)
C) is the function of a unit on the basis of which it is included to a larger unit
D) is the position of an element
E) is syntagmatic relation observed between syntactic units
105. Syntactic form ... .
А) may be described as the distributional formula of the unit (pattern)
B) is the way in which separate word meanings are combined to produce meaningful word-groups and sentences
C) is the function of a unit on the basis of which it is included to a larger unit
D) is the position of an element
E) is syntagmatic relation observed between syntactic units
106. Syntactic function ... .
А) is the function of a unit on the basis of which it is included to a larger unit
B) may be described as the distributional formula of the unit (pattern)
C) is the way in which separate word meanings are combined to produce meaningful word-groups and sentences
D) is the position of an element
E) is syntagmatic relation observed between syntactic units
107. Syntactic position ... .
А) is the position of an element
B) is the function of a unit on the basis of which it is included to a larger unit
C) may be described as the distributional formula of the unit (pattern)
D) is the way in which separate word meanings are combined to produce meaningful word-groups and sentences
E) is syntagmatic relation observed between syntactic units
108. Syntactic relations ... .
А) are syntagmatic relations observed between syntactic units
B) are the positions of an element
C) are the functions of a unit on the basis of which it is included to a larger unit
D) may be described as the distributional formulas of the unit (pattern)
E) are the ways in which separate word meanings are combined to produce meaningful word-groups and sentences
109. Textual basic integrative properties can be described with the help of the notions of ... .
A) coherence, cohesion and deixis
B) coherence, cohesion and delux
C) glotal, cohesion and deixis
D) coherence, interdental and deixis
E) coherence, cohesion and fricative
110. Coherence ... .
A) is a semantic or topical unity of the spoken or written text
B) is a succession of spoken or written sentences
C) means identification by pointing
D) is the way in which separate word meanings are combined to produce meaningful word-groups and sentences
E) is the position of an element
111. Cohesion ... .
A) is a succession of spoken or written sentences
B) is a semantic or topical unity of the spoken or written text
C) means identification by pointing
D) is the way in which separate word meanings are combined to produce meaningful word-groups and sentences
E) is the position of an element
112. Deixis ... .
A) means identification by pointing
B) is a semantic or topical unity of the spoken or written text
C) is a succession of spoken or written sentences
D) is the way in which separate word meanings are combined to produce meaningful word-groups and sentences
E) is the position of an element
113. ... is a semantic or topical unity of the spoken or written text.
A) Coherence
B) Cohesion
C) Deixis
D) Predication
E) Avens
114. ... is a succession of spoken or written sentences.
A) Cohesion
B) Coherence
C) Deixis
D) Avens
E) Predication
115. ... means identification by pointing.
A) Deixis
B) Cohesion
C) Coherence
D) Avens
E) Predication
116. The term ‘pragmatics’ was first introduced by ... .
A) Charles Morris
B) G.Pocheptsov .
C) Henry Sweet
D) Ferdinand de Saussure
E) Wilhelm von Humboldt
117. … are the functions of the indefinite article
A) The classifying function, the indefinitizing function, the introductory function and the quantifying function
B) The classifying function, the adrenomedullary function, the introductory function and the quantifying function
C) The adjustment function, the indefinitizing function, the introductory function and the quantifying function
D) The adjustment function, the adrenomedullary function, the introductory function and the quantifying function
E) The classifying function, the indefinitizing function and the quantifying function
118. The classifying function of the indefinite article … .
A) is realized in the classifying utterances
B) developed from the word “much”
C) is realized when the referent of the noun is not a real thing, but it exists in the speaker’s imagination only
D) is used before sharing some information about the object
E) is realized when we speak about plurality
119. The indefinitizing function of the indefinite article … .
A) is realized when the referent of the noun is not a real thing, but it exists in the speaker’s imagination only
B) is realized in the classifying utterances
C) developed from the word “much”
D) is used before sharing some information about the object
E) is realized when we speak about plurality
120. The introductory function of the indefinite article … .
A) is used before sharing some information about the object
B) is realized when the referent of the noun is not a real thing, but it exists in the speaker’s imagination only
C) is realized in the classifying utterances
D) developed from the word “much”
E) is realized when we speak about plurality
121. The quantifying function of the indefinite article … .
A) developed from the numeral “one”
B) is realized when the referent of the noun is not a real thing, but it exists in the speaker’s imagination only
C) is realized in the classifying utterances
D) developed from the word “much”
E) is realized when we speak about plurality
122. … are the functions of the definite article.
A) The identifying function, the definitizing function and the individualizing function
B) The classifying function, the adrenomedullary function, the introductory function and the quantifying function
C) The adjustment function, the indefinitizing function, the introductory function and the quantifying function
D) The adjustment function, the adrenomedullary function, the introductory function and the quantifying function
E) The classifying function, the indefinitizing function and the quantifying function
123. The identifying function, the definitizing function and the individualizing function are the functions of … A) the definite article
B) the indefinite article
C) zero article
D) molded article
E) sheet article
124. The classifying function, the indefinitizing function, the introductory function and the quantifying function are the functions of … .
A) the indefinite article
B) the definite article
C) molded article and sheet article
D) molded article
E) sheet article
125. The term ‘...’ was first introduced by Charles Morris
A) ‘pragmatics’
B) ‘syntax’
C) ‘paradigm’
D) ‘zeugma’
E) ‘syntagma’
126. … is a type of word different from all other types in that it alone has the grammatical category of tense.
A) The Verb
B) The Noun
C) The Adjective
D) The Pronoun
E) The Adverb
127. Find the principles of the parts of speech classifications.
A) Meaning, form, function
B) Measure, furniture, fiction
C) Moisturizer, flexion, functional
D) Meaningless, formless, functionless
E) Miniature, furniture, fiction
128. … have the category of number.
A) Nouns
B) Verbs
C) Adjectives
D) Conjunctions
E) Prepositions
129. … have the category of case.
A) Nouns
B) Verbs
C) Adjectives
D) Conjunctions
E) Prepositions
130. The noun may be found in the sentence … .
A) in any function with the exception of that of a simple verbal predicate
B) in the function of subject and object
C)in the function of subject, predicative and object
D) in the function of subject, attribute and object
E) in the function of attribute and object
131. Constructional analysis of syntactic units was initiated by ... in 1971.
A) Prof. G.Pocheptsov
B) Prof. S.G.Ter-Minassova
C) Prof.Henry Sweet
D) Prof. Ferdinand de Saussure
E) Prof.Wilhelm von Humboldt
132. ... was initiated by Prof. G.Pocheptsov in 1971.
A) Constructional analysis of syntactic units
A) Syntactic analysis of phrasal units
A) Syntactic analysis of lexemes
A) Descriptional analysis of phonemes
A) SWOT- analysis of syntactic units