Comparative Typology

VARIANT 8.
1.What languages have prepositions?
A) English, Russian
B) Uzbek
C) Russian, Uzbek
D) None of them
E) All of them
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5.What languages have деепричастие/ равишдош?
A) English,
B) Uzbek
C) Russian, Uzbek
D) None of them
E) All of them
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 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
8. How many cases has the noun in Modern English?
A)2
B)3
C)4
D)6
9. What works by V. von Humbold do you know?
A). On the Differences of Structure of Human Languages and its Impact on the Spiritual Development of Man (written in 1836-1839).
B). On the Language of Kavi in the Island Yava (written in 1836-1839)
C) "System of Conjugation in Sanscrit compared with Greek, Latin, Persian and Germanic Languages" (written in 1816).
D) Investigation of the Origin of the Old Islandic Language (written in 1818)
E) On the Frakian Group of Languages (Islandic and other Languages (written in 1822)
F) the first two answers
10.What languages have the pluralia tantum nouns?
A) English, Russian
B) Uzbek , English
C) Russian, Uzbek
D) None of them
E) All of them
11.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
12. How many categories has the noun in Modern Russian?
A) Number
B) Case
C) gender , animacy/inanymacy
D) all the mentioned above
13. What works by M. Koshgarie do you know?
A) Syntactic rules of the Turkic languages
B) Dictionary of the Turkic languages
C) On the Language of Kavi in the Island of Yava
D) the first two
E) all the mentioned above
14.What grammatical categories have the pronouns in Modern English?
A)Person
B)Number
C)Gender
D)Case, person, Number
E)All the mentioned above
15. What is a vocalic 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
16. What is the object of analysis of “Comparative Typology”?
A) two or more languages
B) all the world languages
C) only relative languages
D) only non- relative languages
17. 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 languages, which represents all necessary features of human languages compared
D)“Metalanguage”or “etalon language” is an ordinary language, which represents only certain features of human language.
18. What supersegmental means of language do you know?
A)stress
B) intonation
C) syllable
D) melody
E) all the mentioned above
19.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
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.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
22.What are the structural 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
23.What language has triphthongs?
A) English, Russian,
B) Russian
B) Uzbek
C) English
D) None of them
E) All of them
24.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
E) All of them
25.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