1 republic of uzbekistan ministry of higher and secondary specialised education

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Questions on the subject “Comparative Typology” 
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Linguistic typology investigates... 
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What are the different viewpoints to the language description? 
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Linguistic typology studies language systems... 
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What do you understand by panchronical comparison of language 
systems? 
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Substantial comparison is... 
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Internal approach to comparison is.. 
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Linguistic typology may be classified. 
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The development of linguistic typology is connected... 
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The main periods of the development of linguistic typology: 
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The main factors of the development of linguistic typology: 
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Universal grammar dealt with 
categories 
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Grammatical category consists of... 
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What kinds of classification of languages do you know? 
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What is the genealogical classification of languages? 
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What is typological classification? 
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What scientific works played a great role in the development of 
language description? 
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What is system closeness? 
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What is genetic closeness? 
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What is areal limitation? 
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What is quantitative limitation? 
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What is deep identity? 
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What is surface identity? 
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What is limitation of etalon language? 
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What is maximal etalon language? 
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What is minimal etalon language? 
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What is formal approach to comparison? 
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What is content approach to comparison? 
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What is one-level approach to comparison? 
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What is cross-level approach to comparison? 
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What is the perfectness of typological operations? 
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What is genetic typology? 

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Areal typology deals with... 
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Structural typology deals with ... 
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Comparative typology deals with… 
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Linguistic universals are... 
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The authors of “Universal Grammar” are. 
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When did Port-Royal grammar appear? 
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The contribution of “Universal Grammar” in linguistic typology... 
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What is etalon language? 
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What linguists dealt with the “Typological classification of 
languages” ? 
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Isolated type of the language... 
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What is the main signal of isolated language’s grammar? 
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Agglutinated type of the language are characterized... 
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Inflected type of languages are characterized... 
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Polysynthetic type of languages are characterized... 
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Agglutinated -inflected type of languages are characterized.. .
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Who suggested agglutinated and inflected types of languages? 
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Who suggested isolated (amorphus) type of languages? 
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Who suggested polysynthetic type of languages? 
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Who suggested agglutinated - inflected type of languages? 
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How did E. Sapir classify language systems.. .
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How did G.P. Melnikov classify languages? 
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How did V. Greenberg classify languages? 
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What is F.F. Fortunatov’s contribution in the typological 
classification of languages? 
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What is typological theory? 
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Who established “Typological theory” for morphological 
classification of languages? 
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Who established lexico-grammatical fields? 
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Who established typological categories? 
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Phonetic typology.. .
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Phonological typology.. .
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Morphological typology.. .
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Who are the founders of phonological typology? 
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Who is the founder of phonetic typology? 
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Syntactic typology.. .
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Lexical typology.. .
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Formal typology.. .

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Semantic typology.. .
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Main grammatical signals are.. .
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Diachronic universals.. .
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Synchronic universals... 
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Indifference to system closeness means.. .
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Indifference to genetic closeness means.. .
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Areal limitation means that.. .
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Areal non-limitation means that... 
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Functional-semantic categories... 
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Grammatical-lexical fields… 
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Grammatical form... 
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Grammatical meaning... 
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The binary opposition of word forms 
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What is the type of the language? 
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What is isomorphism? 
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What is allomorphism? 
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What is compensation? 
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What is compensation? 
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What is a three-morpheme structure? 
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What is a two-morpheme structure? 
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What can you say about the disappearance of case forms? 
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What can you say about analytical case forms in English? 
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What levels of the language do you know? 
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What grammatical meanings in English can be expressed on the 
phonological level of the language? 
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What grammatical meanings in English can be expressed on the 
phono-morphological level of the language? 
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What grammatical meanings in English can be expressed on the 
morphological level of the language? 
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What grammatical meanings in English can be expressed on the 
syntactical level of the language? 
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What grammatical meaning in English can be expressed on the 
lexical level of the language 
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What can you say about synthetic forms? 
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What can you say about analytical forms? 
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What is agglutinated affixation? 
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What is functional affixation? 
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What are the suppletive forms expressing grammatical meaning? 

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Word order in the sentence in English is.. 
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Word order in the sentence of the Russian is... 
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What is the contribution of Czech linguist B. Skalichka in 
“Comparative typology” ? 
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What phenomenon caused words’ three-morpheme structure 
change to a two- morpheme structure? 
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What is the reason for the Indo-European case system be shattered? 
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What reason causes the absence of the classes of declension of 
nouns in agglutinated languages in B. A. Serebrennikov’s opinion? 
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What are the reasons of the stability of the agglutinated languages’ 
structure? 
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What can you say about zero morpheme? 
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Word changing elements are... 
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Word forming elements are... 
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Pure type of the language is... 
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What can you say about the language with stable word order in the 
sentence? 
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What can you say about the language with the free word order in 
the sentence? 
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What can you say about the language with fixed word-order? 
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What is adjoining? 
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What is government? 
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What is the agreement? 
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What are the functions of the phoneme? 
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What is the typological category? 
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What are the grammatical means of the language? 
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What is inner fusion ? 
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What is outer fusion ? 
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What is marked form ? 
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What is non-marked grammatical form? 
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What is explicitely expressed grammatical form? 
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What is implicitely expressed grammatical form? 
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What are primary grammatical categories? 
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What are secondary grammatical categories? 
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What is paradigmatic opposition? 
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What is syntagmatic opposition? 
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What is the category of declension? 
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What is the category of declension in English? 

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What can you say about the category of declension in Russian 
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What can you say about the category of declension in Uzbek? 
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What can you say about the category of gender in Russian? 
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What can you say about the category of gender in the Uzbek and 
English languages? 
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What can you say about the category of number in the Uzbek, 
Russian, and English languages? 
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What can you say about the category of possession in the Uzbek 
language? 
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How is the category of definiteness/indefiniteness expressed in 
English? 
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What can you say about the category of voice in the English, 
Russian and Uzbek and English languages? 
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What can you say about the category of mood in the English, 
Russian and Uzbek languages? 
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What can you say about the category of mood in the English, 
Russian and Uzbek languages? 
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What can you say about the categories of person and number of 
verbs in the English, Russian and Uzbek languages? 
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How is the Subjunctive mood Expressed in English, Russian, and 
Uzbek languages? 
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What can you say about the category of transitivity in the Uzbek 
language? 
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On what level of the language are the tense forms in the English 
language expressed? 
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On what level of the language are the tense forms of the Russian 
language expressed? 
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On what level of the language are the tense forms of the Uzbek 
language expressed? 
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Are the tense forms in English expressed synthetically or 
analytically? 
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Are the tense forms in Russian expressed synthetically or 
analytically?