Mid-term typology test 1

Mid-term typology test 1
1………..is a category of words which have similar grammatical properties.
a)Part of speech b) grammatical category c ) language family
2. Division of Comparative Typology with respect to two plans of language:
a) Formal, semantic b) Comparative, structural, areal, genetic c) Phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical d) Formal, semantic, areal, genetic
3.Find major types of word-formation :
a) word-derivation, blending b) word-derivation, word-composition c) clipping, conversion, affixation
4. Find examples of apocope:
a) prof, lab, ad b) prof, madam, vamp c) prof, vamp
5. ............is a non-motivated word-group that cannot be freely made up in speech but is reproduced as a ready made unit. It is functionally and semantically inseparable.
a) word b) morpheme c) lexeme d) phraseological unit
6. Major scholars who contributed to the development of structural typology ……..
a)B. Uspenskiy, V.R Nedyalkov, Ch. Hockette, Yu.Rojdestvenskiy
b) B. Uspenskiy, V.R Nedyalkov, Roman Jacobson and Ghak V.G.
c) Roman Jacobson and Ghak V.G.
d) Joseph Greenberg, J. Jenkins, and I. Osgood
7.A fricative and an affricate differ in ...
a) pressure phase and friction phase b) Nothing c) place of articulation d) the manner of articulation
8…..studies the larger units of connected speech syllables, words, phrases, texts.
a) segmental phonetics; b) theoretical phonetics; c) practical phonetics; d) suprasegmental phonetics.
9.Identify this sentence according to its type: "The old hotel at the end of the street is going to be knocked down at the beginning of next year."
a) complex b) compound c) simple d) compound-complex
10.acromania , cinemadict, chunnel, dramedy, detectifiction, faction, informecial , Medicare
are examples of ….

1. 
   Back-formation b) conversion c) blending d) affixation
   

Mid-term Comparative typology

Test 2
1.Which language classifies vowels into short and long according to the length?
a) Russian b) English c) Uzbek d) Polish
2.According to the origin the prefixes can be :
a) Native and non-native b) Greek and Latin c) Native , Romanic , Greek d) Greek and English
3……….means the comparison of language systems though they are living or dead.
Diachronically b) Panchronically c) synchronically
4.Find examples of sound-interchange :
a) full-fill, acromania, long-length b) believe-belief, long-length c) prof, full-fill, length
5. ………..tendency is characterized by classification of words exclusively according to their structural meaning
a) pre-structural b) post-structural c) structural
6. Khaimovitch and Rogovskaya , Barkhudarov and Shteling are the representatives of ……tendency
a) pre- structural b) structural c) post-structural
7.A….. family consisting of over 1000 languages spread throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans as well South East Asia. Languages include Malay, Indonesian, Maori and Hawaiian
a) The malayo-polynesian b) Afro asiatic c) The Caucasian d) somatic
8. What is the goal of Structural typology?
a. To include discrete sound segments like p, n, or a, which can be defined by a finite set of sound properties or features
b. to identify structural language types
c. identifying common/similar features specific to systems of all or separate language groups
d. to identify universal features of languages
9. ………… words, included nouns, pronouns, verbs and participles
a) indeclinable b) parts of speech c) declinable
10. What did Mahmud Kashgariy do by analyzing a group of Turkic languages?
a) He defined the level of their genetic relationship to each other
b) He found out Language Universals c) He analyzed the lexical units of all Turkic languages