Тесты по "Лексикологии"

 

4. antonymy 

 

5. semantics

 

 

106. Supplementary meaning

 

1. connotation 

 

2. denotation 

 

3. opposition 

 

4. collocation 

 

5. colligation

 

 

107. Word-formation where the target word is formed by combining two or more stems

 

1. composition 

 

2. derivation 

 

3. affixation  

 

4. conversion 

 

5. back formation

 

 

108. Combining parts of two words to form one word

 

1. blending 

 

2. clipping 

 

3. onomatopoeia 

 

4. derivation 

 

5. conversion

 

 

109. The amount of native words in English makes up:

 

1. 30 per cent 

 

2. 50 per cent 

 

3. 40 per cent 

 

4. 70 per cent

 

5. 90 per cent

 

 

110. Semasiology is a branch of linguistics devoted to the study of:

 

1. meaning 

 

2. phonetic structure of the words 

 

3. grammatical structure

 

4. origin 

 

5. morphemic structure

 

 

111. Define the nature of semantic change in 'the teeth of a saw'

 

1. metaphor 

 

2. broadening 

 

3. narrowing 

 

4. amelioration

 

5. metonymy

 

 

112. Descriptive lexicology deals with

 

1. the vocabulary of a given language at a given stage of its development

 

2. the evolution of any vocabulary

 

3. general properties of words

 

4. description of the characteristic peculiarities in the words

 

5. the properties  of the vocabulary of two or more languages

 

 

113. Syntagmatic relationships are studied by

 

1. means of contextual,distributional transformational types of analysis

 

2. by means of word with relating meaning

 

3. by means of words with opposite meaning

 

4. comparison with other words

 

5. by phraseology

 

 

114. Historical lexicology studies:

 

1. Evalution of any vocabulary , origin and development

 

2. Vocabulary of a given language

 

3. The properties of words

 

4. Method of sientific research

 

5. Morphological and semantic studies

 

 

115. There are 2 principle approaches in linguistic science they are :

 

1. Syncronic and diacronic

 

2. Interconnective and independent

 

3. Historical and independent

 

4. Discriptive and independent
5. Grammatical and independent

 

 

116. What kind of meaning the words have?

 

1. Grammatical and lexical

 

2. Historical and discriptive

 

3. Innterconnective

 

4. Phonetical

 

5. Phonetical and grammatical

 

 

117. What is the aim of lexicology:

 

1. to help to choose the words ,to group and systematize lexical material

 

2. to study the meaning of the words

 

3. to find synonyms and antonyms

 

4. to study polysemy

 

5. no correct answer

 

 

118. How many types of motivation do you know:

 

1. 3

 

2. 2

 

3. 1

 

4. 4

 

5. 5

 

 

119. Find the types of motivation :

 

1. phonetical,morphological,semantic

 

2. shortening and sound imitation

 

3. composition and conversion

 

4. syncronic and diacronic

 

5. no answer

 

120. What is metaphor ?

 

1. transferense based on the resemblance

 

2. polysemantic word

 

3. phonetical motivation

 

4. new meaning of the word

 

5. the meaning of the words

 

 

121. Words of the same sound form but of different spelling and meaning

 

1. homophones

 

2. homographs
3. antonyms

 

4. synonyms

 

5. no correct answer

 

 

122. The relationship existing between the morphemic or phonemic composition and structural pattern of the word on the one hand and its meaning on the on the other hand:

 

1. motivation

 

2. expression

 

3. narration

 

4. saying

 

5. meaning

 

 

123. Motivation based on a certain similarity between the sounds is called:

 

1. phonetical

 

2. morphologycal

 

3. semantic

 

4. polysemantic

 

5. monosemantic

 

 

124. Define of word-building of the word «cock-a doodle-do»:

 

1. sound imitation

 

2. composition

 

3. shortening

 

4. affixation

 

5. conversion

 

 

125. Who is the author of the dictionary «words and idioms»

 

1. L.Smith

 

2. V.Collins

 

3. A.Koonin

 

4. B.Beriskin

 

5. A.Volconsky

 

 

126. All the words in the English language can be classified into:

 

1. motivated and non-motivated

 

2. synonyms and antonyms

 

3. derived and compound

 

4. polysemantic and homonimous

 

5. connotative and derogative

 

 

127. What is the basic unit of the lexicology?

 

1. A word

 

2. A root

 

3. A stem

 

4. A suffix

 

5. A meaning

 

 

128. Give definition of the stem:

 

1. Stem is the part of the word that remains unchanged throughout its paradigm.

 

2. Stem is the branch of a study concerning  the words

 

3. Stem is the branch of semaseology
4. Stem  concerns words without linking elements

 

5. Stem is the new way of word building

 

 

129. Words jersey, pullover are:

 

1. international words

 

2. antonyms

 

3. synonyms

 

4. morphems
5. polysemantic words

 

 

130. When  two or  more  unrelated  meanings  are  associated  with the  same  form  the word is :

 

1. homonym

 

2. antonym

 

3. polysemy

 

4. synonym

 

5. simile

 

 

131. When two or more  forms are associated with the same meaning the word is called :

 

1. synonym

 

2. antonym

 

3. polysemy

 

4. morpheme

 

5. no answer

 

132. Denotative component is

 

1. the leading semantic component

 

2. additional semantic component

 

3. complied component

 

4. borrowed component

 

5. neutral component

 

 

133. Define the type of compounding of the word ‘Forget-me-not’

 

1. lexicalized phrase

 

2. neutral compound

 

3. morphological compound

 

4. affixation

 

5. no answer

 

 

134. Define the simple neutral compound

 

1. Boyfriend
2. medium-sized 

 

3. good-for-nothing 

 

4. bread-and-butter

 

5. maid-of-all work

 

 

135. They consist of two stems + affix

 

1. derivational compounds
2. simple neutral
3. morphological compounds    

 

4. contracted compounds  

 

5. syntactic compounds

 

 

136. Find euphemism for the word ‘mad’

 

1. unbalanced 

 

2. under the influence 

 

3. Nick  

 

4. jug 

 

5. deuce

 

 

137. Find a word with morphological motivation

 

1. reread
2. build

 

3. more

 

4. again

 

5. sound

 

 

138. Find a word with morphological motivation

 

1. thoughtful
2. build

 

3. more

 

4. again