Test

I.

What is diglossia?
a) One language or dialect used in one area by a single
language community
b) Two dialects or languages used in one area by a single
language community
c) Two dialects or languages used in different areas by two
language communities
d) Three dialects or languages used in one area by a
single language community
II. The dialect of higher prestige is used in
a) Interpersonal communication
b) Written communication
c) Vernacular form of language
d) Among friends and at home
III. Substratum means
a) Higher layer
b) Lower layer
c) Equal layer
d) Average layer
IV. In case of superstratum
a) The local language persists and the intrusive language
disappears
b) The local language disappears and the intrusive
language persists
c) The local language and the intrusive language coexist
d) Neither the local language nor the intrusive language
exist
V.
Adstratum means
a) Languages of equal prestige where no language
replacement occurs
b) One language of higher prestige and one- of lower
prestige
c) Two languages of higher prestige
d) Two languages of lower prestige
VI. What is Vulgar Latin for French language?
a) Superstratum
b) Substratum
c) Adstratum
d) Language of lower prestige
VII. Find the example of adstratum
a) Vulgar Latin and Classical Latin in Old Latin

b) French and Dutch in Beligium

c) Vulgar Latin and Gaulic in Middle French
d) Russian and Azerbaijanian in Azerbaijan
VIII. Sociolinguistics
a) analyzes ways in which language and society associate
b) analyzes ways in which language and culture associate
c) analyzes ways in which language and psychology
associate
d) analyzes ways in which language and nature associate
IX. National languages are usually formed at the
period of
a) Socialism
b) Capitalism
c) Imperialism
d) Communism
X. National English language was formed in the
a) XV c.
b) XIV c.
c) XIII c.
d) XII c.

1. Which city was the centre of neogrammarian

linguistic school?
a) Berlin
b) Bonn
c) Leipzig
d) Paris
2. What does the term neogrammarianism mean?
a) new grammar
b) new linguistics
c) rejection of new grammar
d) rejection of the main conceptions of traditional linguistics
3. Moscow linguistic school is marked with
.approach to language study
a) Functional
b) Formal
c) Mathematical
d) Semantic
4. The founder of Moscow linguistic school is considered
to be..
a) L.Hyelmslev
b) J. Baudouin de Courtenay
c) F.Fortunatov
d) A.Potebna
5. The main object of study for Moscow linguistic school
was..
a) Semantics
b) Morphology
c) Lexicology
d) Phonology
6. Who was J. Baudouin de Courtenay by origin?
a) French
b) Polish
c) Russian
d) Ukrainian
7. J. Baudouin de Courtenay gave precedence to the
study of
a. alive languages
b. dead languages
c. related languages
d. non-related languages