1. Who said that Areal typology compares languages irrespectively of the degree of their relatedness and aims at defining general elements formed as a result of themutual influence of languages and the cultures staying behind them?

Test 1.

1.Who said that Areal typology compares languages irrespectively of the degree of their relatedness and aims at defining general elements formed as a result of themutual influence of languages and the cultures staying behind them?

a. V.K.Ghak

b. D.J.Buranov

c. Yu.V.Rojdestvenskiy

d. M.M.Guhman

2. What are the objects of study of Areal typology?

a. borrowings, bi-lingual features, hybrid languages, language contacts

b. dialects, centum/satem languages, compiling dialectal maps

c. sub-stratum and super-stratum languages, neologisms, archaisms

d. all answers are true

3. What does Areal typology study?

a. dialects and restrictions of dissemination of separate features in the systems of related and non-related languages, theconfluence of different languages

b. dialects and restrictions of dissemination of separate features in the systems of related and non-related languages

c. dialects, centum/satem languages, compiling dialectal maps

d. sub-stratum and super-stratum languages, neologisms, archaisms

4. What does Comparative Typology deal with?

a. With distribution of linguistic phenomena in the spatial extent and interlingua (interdialectic) interaction

b. with the similarities, and differences of originally related languages

c. With the aims of identifying structural language types

d. with acomparison of languages irrespectively of their genetic or structural identity

5. 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 langauges

6. Comparative-historical linguistics is…

a) Comparative-historical studies of languages in their development

b) Comparative-scientific studies of languages in their development

c) Content approach to comparison

d) One – level approach to comparison

7. Diachronic development means the development of some linguistic phenomena from…

a) From historical viewpoint

b) Modern viewpoint

c) Linguistic viewpoint

d) Grammatical viewpoint

8. The first period is named spontaneous which was over …

a) In the XX century

b) In the XI century

c) Not long before the Renaissance

d) In the XIV century

9. 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

10. Port-Royal grammar is considered to be …

a) Practical grammar

b) Theoretical grammar

c) Universal grammar

d) English grammar

11. When was Port-Royal grammar written

a) 2009

b) 1660

c) 1700

d) 1669

12. 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

d) He compared all language of the world