Comparative Typology

VARIANT 5.

1.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
2.What language has gender types in nouns, pronouns and verbs?
A) English, Russian,
B) Russian
B) Uzbek
C) English
D) None of them
E) All of them
3. What stress is characteristic of Uzbek as to the place of it?
A) Free
B) Fixed
C) Free and fixed
D) None of them
4.What grammatical categories have the pronouns in Modern English?
A)Person
B)Number
C)Gender
D)Case, person, Number
E)All the mentioned above
5.What are the secondary parts of the sentence in the languages compared?
A) object, attribute, adverbial modifiers,
B) subject, direct address
C) predicate, direct address
D) all the mentioned above
6. What levels of linguistic analysis in Comparative Typology do you know?
A) phonetico-phonological and morphological
B) lexical and syntactical (phrasemic and sentencemic)
C) phraseological and textual
D) all the mentioned above
7. What supersegmental means of language do you know?
A)stress
B) intonation
C) syllable
D) melody
E) all the mentioned above
8. What is a consonantic language?
A) the one in which there are more vowels than consonants
B)the one in which there are more consonants than vowels
C)the one in which there are more diphthongs than monophthongs
D)the one in which there are more monophthongs than diphthongs
E) all the mentioned above
9. What is M.Koshgarie’s “Dictionary of the Turkic words” about?
A) about the comparative study of the languages of 20 tribes of Europe
B) about the comparative study of 10 tribes of Minor and Major Asia
C ) about the comparative study of the languages 20 tribes of Minor and Major Asia
D) about the comparative study of 10 tribes of Africa
E) about the comparative study of 20 tribes of America
10.What is “Comparative Typology”?

1. 
   a branch of general linguistics
   
2. 
   a branch of general linguistics that studies two or more non-relative languages in comparison
   
3. 
   a branch of general linguistics that studies all the languages of the world
   
4. 
   a branch of general linguistics that studies relative languages
   
5. 
   a branch of general linguistics that studies areal features of languages
   

11.What languages have деепричастие/ равишдош?
A) English,
B) Uzbek
C) Russian, Uzbek
D) None of them
E) All of them
12. When did M.Koshgarie live and create his works?
A) in the XVII century
B) in the XIX century
C) at the fall of the XI and turn of the XII century
D) in the XIII century
13. Who is the founder of syntactic typology?
A) V. von Humboldt
B) I.I. Meshchaninov
C) F. Bopp
D) A. Shlegel
E) M. Koshgarie
14.What language has diphthongs?
A) English, Russian,
B) Russian
B) Uzbek
C) English
D) None of them
E) All of them
15. What do you understand by”linguistic universals”?
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
16. What is a phoneme ?
A) ) it is the smallest nominative language unit
B) it is the smallest distinctive language unit
C) it is the smallest meaningful language unit
D) it is the smallest communicative language unit
E) all the mentioned above

17. How many mood types has the notional verb in Modern Uzbek?

A) indicative
B) imperative
C)subjunctive,
D)conditional, final
E) all the mentioned above
18. How many tenses has the notional verb in Modern Russian?
A)3
B)8
C)11
D)13
E)16
19. What is a non- 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.
20.What languages have prefixes, infixes and postfixes?
A) Uzbek
B) English, Russian
C) English,
D) Russian
E) All of them
21. What is a "metalanguage or “etalon language?
A)“Metalanguage”or “etalon language” is an artifical language, which represents all necessary features of human language.
B)“Metalanguage”or “etalon language” is a natural language, which represents all necessary features of human language.
C)“Metalanguage”or “etalon language” is either an artifical or a natural language, which represents all necessary features of human language.
D)“Metalanguage”or “etalon language” is an ordinary language, which represents only certain features of human language.
22.What languages have the pluralia tantum nouns?
A) English, Russian
B) Uzbek , English
C) Russian, Uzbek
D) None of them
E) All of them
23. What works by A.H.Vostokov do you know?
A) "Description of the Russian and Slavonic Manuscripts" (written in 1864)
B)"Grammar of Sanscrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic and German". (written in 1833-1849).
C). Slavonic languages (Fundamentals of Old Slavonic Language)
D) Investigation of the Origin of the Old Islandic Language (written in 181
E) the first and third answers
24. How many cases has the noun in Modern English?
A)2
B)3
C)4
D)6
25.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