1. Traditional grammarians had different view on the contents of grammar from modern linguistics. Mark the sequence which represents the traditional underst-anding of the term grammar as a device involving phonology, morphology and syntax.
2. The difference between lexicon and grammar can be best stated as a) lexicon is an open system while grammar involves closed systems, b) lexicon is the place when unpredictable, idiosyncratic information is located, whereas grammar consists of rules which are responsible for regular, predictable processes.
3. Traditionally, morphology is divided into inflection, word formation.
4. Which of the following statements describes the difference between derivational and inflectional morphemes in English in the most adequate way: derivational morphemes always change the syntactic category of the words or morphemes to which they are attached, while inflectional morphemes never do.
5. The number of verb inflectional morpheme suffixes in contemporary English equals four.
6. The difference between function and content words is the following: function words are labels describing grammatical function of words or phrases in a senten-ce whereas content words refer to real world objects; function words do not have any lexical meaning and are necess-ary for syntactic reasons, while content words refer to the real world entitles.
7. In the word 'tribalizations' we can identify the following number and types of morphemes: 3 morphemes: one free form and two affixes.
8. Which pair below belongs to the group of suppletive forms: go/ went.
9. A process whereby a word whose form is similar to that of a derived form undergoes a process of deaffixation is called backformation.
10. Words made by taking the initial sounds of each word in a phrase or a sentence are called acronyms.
11. `Math' is derived form mathematics by clipping.
12. Convresion is process which can be defined as a word formation process of category change.
13. The term hierarchical structure of the sentence carries the implication that its constituents consist of other constituents
14. The sequence of words that can function as constituents in the structure of sentences are best labeled as phrases.
15. Decide in which of the following four sentences the underlined sequence is a constituent: English is the Latin of the 20th century.
16. In structural terms the subject function is best defined as an expression used to mention something.
17. In the same structural terms the predicate function should be defined as an expression used to say something about the subject.
18. Which of the following elements are obligatory in a phrase: head only.
19. The difference between compliments and modifiers is best formulated as follows: compliments are subcategorized, thus dependent on the meaning of the governer and usually obligatory, whereas modifiers are optional not-subcategorize and not dependent on the meaning of the head.
20. A one-way dependency holding between two sister constituents of a sentence is called modification.
21. Phrases founded on a two-way dependency are of the following categories: AdvP, PP.
22. In the sentence Max made some nasty remarks the structure of dependency in the underlined part is one-way: head- modifier.
23. The best definition of the Noun Phrase is the following: the phrase whose head is a noun.
24. The complexity of a NP modification is determined by the type of noun in the position of the head. Select the type of noun which permits the greatest complexity of structure common nouns.
25. In every noun phrase there is an interplay between its semantic content and the scope of its applications. Mark the nominal which is poorest in semantic content and widest in its uses: pronouns.
26. Which of the following phrasal categories can function as postmodifiers in a NP: prepositional phrases, participles and relative clauses.
27. The head of the NP my father's brother's wife is: wife.
28. Which of the following statements is the most adequate identification of the combination of words in a house: it is a prepositional phrase headed by the noun house.
29. English VGrs can be characterized by several categories, some of which, however, rather characterize sentences containing these VGrs. Select the sequence which includes only VGr characterizing categories: tense, aspect, mood.
30. How many tenses are there in English according to descriptive grammars? 2.
31. Aspect is a category which expresses the internal temporal organization of an event.
32. How many grammatical aspects are there in English? 2.
33. Which of the following are transformational categories ie categories which moodily syntactic structures drastically: passive voice, interrogation.
34. Certain verb forms in English are called finite because they are marked for tense.