E) blending and reduplication

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

118 “Din-don, walkie-talkie, ping-pong” are the examples of ___

D) reduplication

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

119 ___ is the morphological process by which a morpheme is repeated, thereby creating a new word with a different word class

B) reduplication

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

120 Which of the following words were derived by means of back – formation

E) to babysit, to beg, to cobble

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

121 “Televise, double-glaze, baby-sitter” are the examples of ___

B) back-formation

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

122 It is the way of word-building when a word is formed by dropping the final morpheme to form a new word

B) back- formation

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

123 The word “cock – a – doodle - doo” is an example of

D) sound-imitation

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

124 It is the way of word-building when a word is formed by imitating different sounds

E) sound imitation

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

Тема: Значения слова. Виды значения слова

125 What are the main types of connotations

C) stylistic, emotional, evaluative, expressive

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

 

126 What are the main or basic types of meanings in Lexicology

E) lexical, grammatical and connotational

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

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127 The component of meaning proper to the word as a linguistic unit recurrent in all the forms of this word is ___

A) lexical meaning

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

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128 The meaning proper to the given linguistic unit in all its forms and distributions is_____

B ) grammatical meaning

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

129 The emotive charge and the stylistic value of the word is called

E) connotational meaning

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

130 What types of connotations do you know

C) stylistic, emotional, evaluative, expressive

 

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

131 What is the lexical meaning

C) the meaning proper to the given linguistic unit in all its forms and distributions

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

132 What is the denotational meaning

D) the component of the lexical meaning which makes communication possible

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

133 What is the connotational meaning

B) the component of meaning that considers emotive charge and stylistic reference of words

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

134 What is the grammatical meaning

C) the component of meaning recurrent in identical set of individual forms of different words

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

135 What is the differential meaning

B) the component of meaning that distinguishes one word from all others containing identical morphemes

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

136 What is the distributional meaning

E) the meaning of the order and arrangement of morphemes

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

137 The only existing classification system of synonyms was established by

B) V.V. Vinogradov

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

138 The stem expresses_______ meaning

C) lexical and part of speech

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

139 The system of grammatical forms characteristic of a word is called:

A) a paradigm

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

Тема: Мотивация. Виды мотивации

140 Motivation is _____

D) a connection between the structural pattern of the word and its meaning

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

141 From the given definitions find correct definition of motivation

A) the way in which a given meaning is represented in the word

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

 

142 A connection between the structural pattern of the word and its meaning is called:

B) motivation

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

143 There are 3 types of motivation. They are____

B) morphological, phonetic, semantic

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

144 Semantic motivation implies …

C) a direct connection between the central and marginal meaning of the word

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

145 Morphological motivation implies …

A) a direct connection between the lexical meaning of the component morphemes, their arrangement and meaning

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

146 Phonetical motivation implies ….

B) a direct connection between the phonetic structure of the word and its meaning

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

147 Define the examples of phonetic motivation from the following variants

C) bang, cuckoo, burr, splash

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

148 Define the examples of morphological motivation from the following variants

B) rethink, retell, reproduce, faded

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

149 Define the examples of semantic motivation from the following variants

A) the foot of the mountains, the root of the word

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

Тема: Изменения значения слова

150 The causes of semantic changes may be grouped under two main headings

They are ….

A ) linguistic and extralinguistic

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

151 Similarity of meanings or______ may be described as a semantic process of associating two referents

E) metaphor

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

From the connotational point of view the meaning of the words can change into:

A) pejoration, amelioration

B) blending, back-formation

C) functional, referential

D) generalization, specialization

E) metaphor, metonymy

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

153 What is the dominant synonym

B) a central word whose meaning is equal to the denotation common to all the synonymic group

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

154 Changes in the denotational meaning may result in the application of the word towards wider variety of referents. This is commonly described as _____

A) generalization of meaning

 

{Правильный ответ}=A

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155 What is pejoration of meaning

A) lowering of the meaning connected with the appearance of a derogatory

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

156 It is a transfer of the meaning on the basis of comparison

E) metaphor

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

157 These are words referring to smth unpleasant by using milder words and phrases so that a formerly unoffensive word receives a disagreeable meaning

C) euphemism

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

158 Transference based on resemblance is also referred to as___

C) metaphor

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

159 Transference based on contiguity is also referred to as____

A) metonymy

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

160 From the denotational point of view the meaning of the words can change into:

D) generalization, specialization

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

161 Find the synonyms of the verb “to die”

C) to yield up the ghost, to go the way of all flesh, to go West, to check out

{Правильный ответ}=C

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162 Sometimes a word which represented a notion of a broader scope has come to render the notion of a narrower scope. This phenomenon is called_______

A) specialization

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

163 It is a transfer of the meaning when it becomes better in the course of time

B) elevation

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

164 It is a transfer of the meaning when it becomes worse in the course of time

D) degradation

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

165 It is a transfer of the meaning when the speaker uses exaggerations

E) hyperbole

{Правильный ответ}=E

 

166 It is a transfer of the meaning when the speaker expresses affirmative with the negative or vice versa

C) litote

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

167 What is the meaning of the underlined parts of words: mono lingual, mono syllable, mono logue

A) one

{Правильный ответ}=A

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Тема: Полисемия. Омонимы. Синонимы. Антонимы

$$170 When the intermediate links fall out, some new meanings lose all connections with the rest of the structure and start a separate existence. The phenomenon is known _______

C) split of polysemy

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

168 What is polysemy

C) the existence within one word of several connected meanings as the result of the

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

169 Terminology, professionalisms, jargonism belong to _____ grouping of English Vocabulary

B) stylistically neutral and stylistically marked vocabulary

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

170 What is monosemy

B) The existence of only one meaning within words

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

171 Intralinguistic relations of words are basically of two main types:

B) syntagmatic and paradigmatic

{Правильный ответ}=B

 

172 What are the main types of linguistic contexts

A) linguistic, extralinguistic

{Правильный ответ}=A

 

173 There are two processes of the semantic development of a word:

D) radiation and concatenation

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

174 What is context

C) the minimal stretch of speech determining each individual meaning of the word

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

 

175 Context helps

D) determine each individual meaning of the word

{Правильный ответ}=D

 

176 ____ is the key to find out meaning of the word under consideration

A) semantics

B) connotation

C) context

D) opposition

E) paradigmatic

{Правильный ответ}=C

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177 The relationship existing between elements of various levels is logically that of inclusion semantists call it

C) hyponymy

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

178 Different causes by which homonymy may be brought about are divided into two main groups:

C) homonymy through convergent sound development and developed from polysemy through divergent sense development

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

179 What are homonyms proper

C) are words identical in pronunciation and spelling but different meaning

{Правильный ответ}=C

 

180 Professor A.I. Smirnitsky classified homonyms into _____ classes