HEL 1 Seminar
Historically the sound changes because of... *
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assimilation
lenition
both of them
none of them
English makes part of.... group of languages *
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East-Germanic group
North-Germanic group
West-Germanic group
Grimm's and Verner's Laws deal with the shift of... *
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consonants
vowels
consonants and vowels
diphthongs
The first English record have come down from *
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10 c
5c
7c
8c
OE [ f ] was pronounced in the following way: *
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gift [ gift ] vs lifer [ liver]
gift [ givt] vs lifer [ lifer]
gift [ givt] vs lifer [ liver]
gift [ gift] vs lifer [ lifer]
OE Þ stood for sounds *
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[dʒ] and [tʃ]
[ʃ ] and [ s]
[ð ] and [ θ]
[ j] and [ʒ ]
PIE is deciphered as... *
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post-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indian-European Language
Pre-Indo-European language
When a short vowel ( e.g. [o] ) is replaced by a long vowel ( e.g. [ o:] ), this
penomenon is called.... *
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ablaut
gradation
i-umlaut
pejoration
OE Vocalic system included.... *
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diphthongs
monophthongs
diphtongs and monophthongs
digraphs
There are ..... attested written documents in PIE *
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5
2
0
4
The types of difference in a language are: *
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geographical and social
social and temporal
social and dialectal
social, temporal and geographical
How many stages of language death do you know?? *
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1
2
3
4
Anglo-Saxon alphabet was called.... *
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thamisa
futharc
dellit
tampa
A set of principles to systematically compare languages with respect to their sound
system, grammar structure and vocabulary is called.... *
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comparative method
comparatie system
comparative-analytic system
analytic system
The change of sound from one to another is called .... *
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lenition
distribution
qualitative change
quantitatie change
The PIE was spoken by the group of people living... *
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in India
between north of Caucusus and north of the Caspian Sea
on the area between north of Caucuses and south of the Caspian Sea
on the territory of modern Siberia
What kind of linguistic phenomenon takes place in rīsan – rās – rīson - rīsen:: *
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ablaut
umlaut
gradation
lengthening of vowels
The sign * in sunus ( daughter) means ..... form of the word *
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reconstructed form
cultural form
dictionary form
infinitival form
Semantic changes include: *
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pejoration and amelioration
widening and narrowing of meaning
all of them
none of them
In case of FEOH ( OE) and CATTLE ( MnE) for the denotation of the same concept we
attest: *
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shift of meaning
simple substitution
no replacement
The voicing of the sound [z] into [r] is called.... *
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zootism
rhotacism
reduction
deletion
Franz Bopp established .... *
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the importance of Sanscrit in the comparative study of language
the importance of Old English
the importance of PIE
the importance of PG
Synchronical study of language is… *
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the investigation of language as fixed in time and description of each linguistic unit in present
the study of language from its origin to the present
the study of language’s origin
all of them
OE word sentence always began with capital letters *
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all the letters were capitalized
no capital letters in OE sentence
Language change is ... *
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a change of one form of language into another
the phenomenon inolving the modification on phonetic and semantic levels
changes on syntactic and morhologic levels
changes on all levels
in OE disc, scinu [sc] was pronounced as... *
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[sk]
[ dʒ]
[tʃ]
[ʃ ]
The practice of establishing the features of unattested ancestor of one or more given
languages is called.... *
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linguistic comparison
linguistic affirmation
linguistic reconstruction
linguistic systematization
The study of language’s change use in the past and the determination of the language
subsequent derivation from the previous one and their relationship is called…. *
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historical sociolinguistics
historical linguistics
historical dialectology
historical semasiology
If no children are learning the language as their first language, the language is .... *
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dead
having a shift
moribund
alive
Doubling of consonants in OE indicated.... *
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muteness
length
shortening of pronunciation
strong pronunciation
In the early Germanic Languages the grammatical forms were built by.... *
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inflections
sound interchange
suppletion
all of them
The PIE was.... *
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an inflected language
a compositional language
a functional language
The OE vowels were... *
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all long
all short
long and short
length and shortness of the vowels did not matter
When a back vowel changes to the associated front vowel or a front vowel becomes
close to [i], when the following syllables contains -i, one can speak about ... *
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i-umlaut
i-ablaut
a-umlaut
i-lenition
Runes represent..... *
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a numeric alphabet
inscriptions made on objects of hard materials, straightness being their feature
inscriptions made on soft objects, the letters being rounded
another denotation of Roman alphabet
The word stress in early Germanic languages is ..... *
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fixed on the root
movable
fixed on the prefix
fixed on the suffix
Diachronical study of language involves… *
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every linguistic unit is interpreted as an evolution
the research of modern state of the language
the investigation of language’s origin
PIE roots phonetically resemble modern English words... *
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always resemble
not always resemble
they are quite different
The causes of language change are: *
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principle of least effort and analogy
medium of communication and cultural environment
language contact and society
all the reasons as a system
