Comparative Typology

VARIANT 3.

1.What languages have the plural tantum nouns?

A) English, Russian
B) Uzbek , English
C) Russian, Uzbek
D) None of them
E) All of them
2.What languages have prepositions?
A) English, Russian
B) Uzbek
C) Russian, Uzbek
D) None of them
E) All of them
3. How many mood types has the notional verb in Modern English?
A) indicative
B) imperative
C) subjunctive,
D) conditional ,final
E) the first three
F) all the mentioned above
4.What language has interdental sounds?
A) English, Russian,,
B) Russian
B) Uzbek
C) English
D) None of them
E) All of them
5. What are the allomorphic features of languages compared?
A) the similar features
B) the dissimilar features
C) the unique features
D) the universal features

6.In what language can the affix of plurality express the semantics of respect to a person or his belongings?

A) English
B) Russian
C)Uzbek
D) Uzbek , Russian
E) All of them
7.What language types did I..I. Meshchaninov distinguish?
A) languages of the passive structure (the Chukot language and languages of American Indians) with no transitive and intransitive verbs.
B) languages of the ergative structure (Avar, Luck, Dargin, Georgian slightly).
C) nominative languages, in which subject is always in the nominative case irrespective of the transitive and intransitive character of the verb.
D) All the mentioned above

8.What phrase types are there in Modern English, Uzbek and Russian?

A)Coordinate
B)Subordinate
C)Predicative
D)Coordinate , Subordinate
E)Subordinate, Predicative
F) The first three
9.What grammatical categories have the pronouns in Modern English?
A)Person
B)Number, Case
C)Gender
D)the first two answers
E)All the mentioned above
10.What is the basic word order of simple sentence in Modern English and Russian?
A) SVO
B) SOV
C) OVS
D) VOS
E) VSO
F) OSV

11.What kind of work is M.Koshgarie’s “Dictionary of the Turkic Words”?

A)"Dictionary…" by Mahmud Koshgarie is a linguistic and literary work,
B)"Dictionary…" by Mahmud Koshgarie is not only a linguistic and literary work, but also an encyclopedia, describing the history and climate of Movarounnahr,
C) ”Dictionary…" by Mahmud Koshgarie is not only a linguistic and literary work, but also an encyclopedia, describing the history, geography and climate of Movarounnahr, customs and traditions of the turkic people of the time.
D) ”Dictionary…" by Mahmud Koshgarie is not only a linguistic and literary work, but also an encyclopedia, describing the history, social-economic position, geography, climate of Movarounnahr, customs and traditions of the turkic people of the time.

12. What categories has the noun in Modern English?

A) Number
B) Case
C) gender , animacy/inanymacy
D) the first two
E) all the mentioned above

13.What are the purposes of studying “Comparative Typology”?

A) working out methodical recommendations for teaching process
B) working out methodical recommendations for translating process
C) developing language theory and verifying the linguistic universals
D) all the mentioned above

14.What language types did F.Shelegel distinguish?

A) languages with affixes (Turkic languages, Polynezean languages and even Chinese)
B) flective languages (Semit language, Georgean, French languages
C) amorph
D) isolating
E) the first two
15. What works by I. Dobrovsky do you know?
A). Origin of Slavonic languages.
B). Slavonic languages (Fundamentals of Old Slavonic Language)
C) Investigation of the Origin of the Old Islandic Language (written in 1818)
D) On the Frakian Group of Languages (Islandic and other Languages (written in 1822)
E)The first two answers

16. How many tenses has the notional verb in Modern English

A)3
B)8
C)11
D)13
E)16
17. What is a vocalic system?
A)It is a system of consonants
B)It is a system of vowels
C)It is a system of vowels and consonants
D)It is a system of half vowels
E)All the mentioned above
18.What obligatory functions do phonemes in all languages have?
A) Constitutive function - they being constituents of morphemes and words.
B) Distinctive function - they serve to make one word distinct from the other
C) Constructive function
D) Semantic function
E) All the mentioned above
19.What are the structural simple sentence types in Modern English, Uzbek and Russian?
A)simple one-member unextended
B)simple one-member extended
C)simple two-member unextended
D)simple two-member extended
E)All the mentioned above
20.What phrase types are there in Modern English, Uzbek and Russian?
A)Coordinate
B)Subordinate
C)Predicative
D)Coordinate , Subordinate
E)Subordinate, Predicative
F) The first three
21. How many categories has the noun in Modern Uzbek?
A) Number
B) Case
C) gender , animacy/inanymacy
D) the first two answers
E) all the mentioned above
22.What are the secondary parts of the sentence in the languages compared?
A) object, attribute, adverbial modifiers,
B) subject, adverbial modifiers, direct address
C) predicate, adverbial modifiers, direct address
D) all the mentioned above
23.What type of language is Uzbek?
A) analytical
B) flective
C) agglutinative
D) amorph
24.What is the basic word order of simple sentence in Modern English and Russian?
A) SVO
B) SOV
C) OVS
D) VOS
E) VSO
F) OSV
25.In what language can all the nouns be used in plural?
A) English
B) Russian
B) Uzbek
C) English
D) None of them
E) All of them