Comparative Typology

VARIANT 2.

1. What is“Confrontative Linguistics”?

A)a branch of general linguistics
B) a branch of linguistics that studies two or more languages in comparison accenting on
their similarities and dissimilarities.

3. 
   a branch of linguistics that studies only the dissimilarities of the languages compared
   

D) branch of linguistics that studies only the similarities of the languages compared
2. What language is English as to the place of the stress?
A) oxytonic
B) non- oxytonic
C ) both oxytonic and non- oxytonic
E) the one with a free stress
3. How many categories has the noun in Modern Uzbek?
A) Number
B) Case
C) gender , animacy/inanymacy
D) the first two
E) all the mentioned above
4. What is an oxytonic language?
A) the one with a stress always at the end of the word
B) the one with a stress at the beginning of the word.
C) the one with a stress in the midst of the word.
D) the one with a stress either at the beginning or in the midst of the word
E) the one with a free stress.
5.What intonation types are found in languages?
A)) falling, rising
B) falling-rising , rising-falling
C) rising-falling-rising , falling-rising-falling
D) all the mentioned above
6.What is a part of speech?
A) a class of words or even one word (in the simplest form)characterized by:
B) lexico-grammatical meaning (semantics
C) form
D) function
E) grammatical category (or categories)
F) all the mentioned above
7.What do you understand by”linguistic unicals”?
A)Features common only to some languages
B)Features common to many languages
C)Features common to all languages
E)Features common to one language
8.What links has Comparative Typology with Methods of teaching languages?
A)It helps to work out effective methods of teaching languages
B) it helps to work out effective system of exercises to eliminate typical mistakes
C)It helps to work out useful recommendations for translation process
D)It helps to elaborate language theory
E)It helps to verify language universals
F)All the mentioned above
9. What is “Typological Linguistics”?
A) a branch of general linguistics
B) a branch of general linguistics that studies two or more languages in comparison
C) a branch of general linguistics that studies all the languages of the world
D) a branch of general linguistics that studies only relative languages

10.What methods analysis are used in “Comparative Typology”?

A)Comparative method, Componential method
B).Distributional method, Oppositional method
C)Transformational method , Method of IC.
D)Tagmemic method, Statistical method, Method of language universals , uncials, etc.
E) all the mentioned above

11.What is the basic word order of simple sentence in Modern Uzbek?

A)SVO
B)SOV
C)OVS
D)VOS
E)VSO
F)OSV
12.What type of language is English?
A) analytical
B) flective
C) agglutinatiuve
D) amorph
13. How many categories has the noun in Modern Russian?
A) Number
B) Case
C) gender, animacy/inanymacy
D) the first three
E) all the mentioned above
14. 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
15.What are the main parts of the sentence in the languages compared?
A) subject
B) predicate
C) object, attribute
D) adverbial modifiers, direct address
E)the first two
F) all of them
16.What composite sentence types are there in Modern English, Uzbek and Russian?
A)compound,
B)complex,
C)semi-complex,
D)semi-compound
E) all the mentioned above
17.What types of taxemic units do you know in the languages compared?
A)monotaxeme
B)polytaxeme
C)binome
D)polynome
E)the first two
F)the last two

18. What is “Linguistic Characterology”?

A) a branch of linguistics
B) a branch of linguistics that studies three or more languages in comparison through the prism of one of them
C) a branch of linguistics that studies all the languages of the world
D) a branch of general linguistics that studies only relative languages
E) a branch of linguistics that studies all the world languages in comparison through the prism

19. How many voices has the notional verb in Modern English?

A)Active
B)Passive
C)Reflexive
D)Causative , Reciprocal ,Middle
E) the first two
20. What are the similarities of the compared languages explained by?
A) general or universal tendencies of language development
B) communicative necessity to express the phenomena of objective reality
C) general or universal structural/constructive features of languages
D) all the mentioned above
21.What language types did A.Shlegel distinguish?
A) languages without a grammatical structure
B) affixational languages
C) flective languages
D) all the mentioned above
22.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
23.What language has tripthongs?
A) English, Russian,
B) Russian
B) Uzbek
C) English
D) None of them
E) All of them

24. 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
25. What grammatical categories has the notional verb in Modern English?
A) Person, tense
B) Number, mood,
C) Voice, aspect, order, gender
D) all the mentioned above but gender