Comparative Typology midterm test

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Test 1
1…… a group of languages related by descent from a common ancestor.
a)Language system b) Language group c) Language family d) Language features
2.In …..grammatical relations are expressed by means of prepositions, auxiliary words and word
order.
a) analytic languages b) synthetic languages c) zero morpheme d) language universals
3. ………..a hypothetic language created by typologists for the sake of contrasting any language
a) Language universal b) etalon language c)Language family d) Received pronunciation
4…………. The most widely studied family of languages and the family with the largest
number of speakers. Languages include English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian,
Greek, Hindi, Bengali; and the classical languages of Latin, Sanskrit, and Persian.
a)The Uralic family b) The Indo-European c) Austro-Asiatic
5. General typology combines two types of typologies
a) Lexical and Semantic b) Linguistic and non-linguistic c) Structural and Areal d) Phonetic and
Phonological
6. Non-linguistic typology as a method of comparison serves in…
a) Linguistics b) All sciences besides linguistics c) Literature d) General Linguistics and
Literature
7. …deals with the languages which are genetically related both synchronically and
diachronically
a) Comparative Typology b) Areal Typology c) Genetic Typology d) Structural Typology
8. 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
9. Port-Royal grammar is considered to be …
a) Practical grammar b) Theoretical grammar c) Universal grammar d) English grammar
10. When was Port-Royal grammar written ?
a) 2009 b) 1660 c) 1700 d) 1669
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Test 2
1.What is PIE ?
a) Pro Indian b) Proto-Indo-European c) Prototype Indo-Europe d) Pre-Indo-European
2………… - a language that influences or influenced by another through contact
a)substratum b) superstratum c) stratum d) satem group
3. Find the examples for back-formation:
a) forget-me-not b) blood-bleed c) smog, broadcast d) babysit, beg
4 ….. is a real linguistic unity of grammatical meaning and the means of its material expression
A) grammatical meaning b) grammar rule c) grammatical category d) grammatical form
5.Find Pluralia Tantum nouns
a. the North, gold, water b) tongs, scissors, beer c) remnants: leavings, cards, billiards,
d) tongs, contents, oil
6. ............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
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.Who identifies 4 periods in the history of typological studies ?
a) A.Buranov b) J. Buranov c) U. Yusupov d) A.Iriskulov
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Test 3

1. …………..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
2. .What does the term “typology” mean?
a.typos tur, logos-fan b. typos-xilma-xillik , logon-bilim c. type-tur, logy- mantiq d. typen-
maktub , logon-fikr
3. 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
4What is the type of language that is characterized by the absence of inflections and affixational
morphemes expressing word relations?
a) Isolating b) Agglutinative c) Flexional d) Polysynthetic
5. What language has non –developed morphology?
a) Uzbek b) Latin c) English d) Chinese
6. Linguistic Typology deals with …
a) Language systems in comparison b) Psychology c) Mathematics d) Literature
7. According to the object of comparison Comparative Typology consists of:
a) Genetic, comparative, areal, structural b) Semantic, formal c) Syntactic, structural, areal,
lexical d) Phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical
8. Comparative method has …
a) Typological investigation b) Grammatical features c) Universal features d) General features
9. Internal approach to language description deals with…
a) Non-related languages b) The system of any concrete national language
c) Related languages d) All languages
10. External approach to language description deals with…
a) Non-related languages b) The cross-language description c) All languages d) Related
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Test 4

1. 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
2. Diachronic development means the development of some linguistic phenomena from…
a) From historical viewpoint b) Modern viewpoint c) Linguistic viewpoint d) Grammatical
viewpoint
3. 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 cent
4. 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
5.Who identifies 4 periods in the history of typological studies ?
a) A.Buranov b) J. Buranov c) U. Yusupov d) A.Iriskulov
6. 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 languages of the world
7. The smallest unit of sound distinguishing meaning is called a ...
a) phone b) morpheme c) phoneme d) allophone
8. A fricative and an affricate differ in ...
a) pressure phase and friction phase b) Nothing c) place of articulation d) the manner of
articulation
9. A voiced and a voiceless sound differ in ...
a) There is no difference b) the direction of the air stream c) aspiration d) vocal chord action
10. In which of these words is the vowel the shortest?
a) bean b) bead c) bee d) bet
Comparative Typology midterm test
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Test 5

1. … which is mainly concerned with the functioning of phonetic units in the language.
a) segmental phonetics; b) practical phonetics; c) suprasegmental phonetics; d) theoretical
phonetics.
2. ……. No grammatical categories between head word and adjunct .They are connected
lexically, syntactic relation is expressed by word-order and intonation .
a)government b) agreement c)coordination d) contact
3………grammatical categories are formed by using functional words .
a)Mixed b) analytic c) synthetic d) coordinating
4. Which language classifies vowels into short and long according to the length?
a) Russian b) English c) Uzbek d) Polish
5.According to the relations of elements, languages are classified into…
a) Agglutinative, Flexional, Isolating, Polysynthetic b) Flexional, Agglutinative, Polysynthetic,
c) Polysynthetic, Flexional, Non-flexional, Isolating d) Isolating, Non-agglutinative,
Polyflexional, Polysenthetic
6……………typology operates with special systems or models with the help of which
isogfosses of different languages are clarified.Structural b) areal c) genetic d) comparative

7.In …..grammatical relations are expressed by means of prepositions, auxiliary words and word
order.
a) analytic languages b) synthetic languages c) zero morpheme d) language universals
8. ………..a hypothetic language created by typologists for the sake of contrasting any language
a) Language universal b) etalon language c)Language family d) Received pronunciation
9…………. The most widely studied family of languages and the family with the largest
number of speakers. Languages include English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian,
Greek, Hindi, Bengali; and the classical languages of Latin, Sanskrit, and Persian.
a)The Uralic family b) The Indo-European c) Austro-Asiatic
10. General typology combines two types of typologies
a) Lexical and Semantic b) Linguistic and non-linguistic c) Structural and Areal d) Phonetic and
Phonological
Comparative Typology midterm test
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Test 6
1…. consists of in the cutting off one or several syllables of a word
a) blending b) back-formation c) clipping d) sound-interchange
2. 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
3. The smallest unit of sound distinguishing meaning is called a ...
a) phone b) morpheme c) phoneme d) allophone
4. clash , flush, slanguage, brunch, smog are examples of ……
a)blending b) back-formation c) clipping d) sound-interchange
5. A fricative and an affricate differ in ...
a) pressure phase and friction phase b) Nothing c) place of articulation d) the manner of
articulation
6. A voiced and a voiceless sound differ in ...
a) There is no difference b) the direction of the air stream c) aspiration d) vocal chord action
7. In which of these words is the vowel the shortest?
a) bean b) bead c) bee d) bet
8. … which is mainly concerned with the functioning of phonetic units in the language.
a) segmental phonetics; b) practical phonetics; c) suprasegmental phonetics; d) theoretical
phonetics.
9. ……. No grammatical categories between head word and adjunct .They are connected
lexically, syntactic relation is expressed by word-order and intonation .
a)government b) agreement c)coordination d) contact
10………grammatical categories are formed by using functional words .
a)Mixed b) analytic c) synthetic d) coordinating
Comparative Typology midterm test
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Test 7

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 relations of elements, languages are classified into…

a) Agglutinative, Flexional, Isolating, Polysynthetic b) Flexional, Agglutinative, Polysynthetic,

Monosynthetic c) Polysynthetic, Flexional, Non-flexional, Isolating

d) Isolating, Non-agglutinative, Polyflexional, Polysenthetic

3……………typology operates with special systems or models with the help of which
isogfosses of different languages are clarified.
Structural b) areal c) genetic d) comparative
4. 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
5What is the type of language that is characterized by the absence of inflections and affixational
morphemes expressing word relations?
a) Isolating b) Agglutinative c) Flexional d) Polysynthetic
6. What language has non –developed morphology?
a) Uzbek b) Latin c) English d) Chinese
7.In Russian nouns can show gender (among other features). What feature(s) can nouns in
English show?
a) Case only b) Number only c) Case and number d) Number and person
8.What is word order in the language?
a) The agreement of words in a phrase b) The arrangement of words in a phrase, clause, or
sentence c) Subordination of clauses d) Structure of a phrase
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.Syntactic typology studies...
a) parts of speech b) word level c) phoneme level d) sentence level and phrase level
Comparative Typology midterm test
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Test 8

1. The category of plurality is expressed by phono-morphological means…

a) tooth – teeth b) Class – people c) Girl – girls d) a lot of students
2. …..studies the larger units of connected speech syllables, words, phrases, texts.
a) segmental phonetics; b) theoretical phonetics; c) practical phonetics; d) suprasegmental
phonetics.
3. 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
4.What is PIE ?
a) Pro Indian b) Proto-Indo-European c) Prototype Indo-Europe d) Pre-Indo-European
5………… - a language that influences or influenced by another through contact
a)substratum b) superstratum c) stratum d) satem group
6. General typology combines two types of typologies
a) Lexical and Semantic b) Linguistic and non-linguistic c) Structural and Areal d) Phonetic and
Phonological
7. Non-linguistic typology as a method of comparison serves in…
a) Linguistics b) All sciences besides linguistics c) Literature d) General Linguistics and
Literature
8. …deals with the languages which are genetically related both synchronically and
diachronically
a) Comparative Typology b) Areal Typology c) Genetic Typology d) Structural Typology
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.What is word order in the language?
a) The agreement of words in a phrase
b) The arrangement of words in a phrase, clause, or sentence
c) Subordination of clauses
d) Structure of a phrase
Comparative Typology midterm test
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Test 9

1.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
2.Syntactic typology studies...
a) parts of speech b) word level c) phoneme level d) sentence level and phrase level
3. Which language classifies vowels into short and long according to the length?

a) Russian b) English c) Uzbek d) Polish

4.According to the relations of elements, languages are classified into…

a) Agglutinative, Flexional, Isolating, Polysynthetic b) Flexional, Agglutinative, Polysynthetic,

Monosynthetic c) Polysynthetic, Flexional, Non-flexional, Isolating

d) Isolating, Non-agglutinative, Polyflexional, Polysynthetic

5……………typology operates with special systems or models with the help of which
isogfosses of different languages are clarified.

A)Structural b) areal c) genetic d) comparative

6.acromania , cinemadict, chunnel, dramedy, detectifiction, faction, informecial , Medicare

are examples of ….
a) Back-formation b) conversion c) blending d) affixation
7.What is the type of language that is characterized by the absence of inflections and affixational
morphemes expressing word relations?

a) Isolating b) Agglutinative c) Flexional d) Polysynthetic

8. What language has non –developed morphology?

a) Uzbek b) Latin c) English d) Chinese

9.All Indo-European Languages in the East are …..

a) Satem b) centum c) hybrid d) mixed
10. Is English a hybrid Language ?
a) No b) Yes c) I don’t know d) sometimes
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Test 10

1. ……. No grammatical categories between head word and adjunct .They are connected
lexically, syntactic relation is expressed by word-order and intonation .

a)government b) agreement c)coordination d) contact

2………grammatical categories are formed by using functional words .

a) Mixed b) analytic c) synthetic d) coordinating

3. Which language classifies vowels into short and long according to the length?

a) Russian b) English c) Uzbek d) Polish

4.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

5……….means the comparison of language systems though they are living or dead.

Diachronically b) Panchronically c) synchronically

6.In …..grammatical relations are expressed by means of prepositions, auxiliary words and word
order.
a) analytic languages b) synthetic languages c) zero morpheme d) language universals
7. ………..a hypothetic language created by typologists for the sake of contrasting any language
a) Language universal b) etalon language c)Language family d) Received pronunciation
8…………. The most widely studied family of languages and the family with the largest
number of speakers. Languages include English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian,
Greek, Hindi, Bengali; and the classical languages of Latin, Sanskrit, and Persian.
a)The Uralic family b) The Indo-European c) Austro-Asiatic
9............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
10. …………..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