Ministry of higher and secondary special education of the republic uzbekistan state world languages university

 
 
Test yourself on Comparative Typology as a branch of General 
Linguistics 
 
1.
General typology combines two types of typologies
a)
Lexical and Semantic 
b)
Linguistic and non-linguistic 
c)
Structural and Areal 
d)
Phonetic and Phonological 
2.
Non-linguistic typology as a method of comparison serves in… 
a)
Linguistics 
b)
All sciences besides linguistics 
c)
Literature 
d)
General Linguistics and Literature 
3.
…deals with the languages which are genetically related both synchronically 
and diachronically 
a)
Comparative Typology 
b)
Areal Typology 
c)
Genetic Typology
d)
Structural Typology 
4.
Linguistic Typology deals with … 
a)
Language systems in comparison 
b)
Psychology 
c)
Mathematics 

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d)
Literature 
5.
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 
6.
Comparative method has … 
a)
Typological investigation 
b)
Grammatical features 
c)
Universal features 
d)
General features 
7.
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 
8.
External approach to language description deals with… 
a)
Non-related languages 
b)
The cross-language description
c)
All languages 
d)
Related languages 
9.
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 
10.
Diachronic development means the development of some linguistic phenomena 
from… 
a)
From historical viewpoint 
b)
Modern viewpoint 
c)
Linguistic viewpoint 

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d)
Grammatical viewpoint 
11.
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
12.
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 
13.
Port-Royal grammar is considered to be … 
a)
Practical grammar 
b)
Theoretical grammar 
c)
Universal grammar
d)
English grammar 
14.
When was Port-Royal grammar written 
a)
2009 
b)
1660 
c)
1700 
d)
1669 
15.
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