What do we call regional varieties of a standard literary language characterized by some minor peculiarities in the sound system, vocabulary and grammar and their own literary norms? variants of a language
dialects
accents
idiolects
The denotative component of meaning is … . the leading component in the semantic structure of a word
the ability of a word to have different variants of pronunciation
the ability of a word to have different linguistic forms
the ability of a word to have variants of spelling
On what level is the word studied in its relationships with other words the vocabulary system? It is studied on the paradigmatic level.
It is studied on the historical level.
It is studied on the modern level.
It is studied on the syntagmatic level.
Contracted words are produced in two different ways: the first is to make a new word from a syllable of the original word. What is the second? to make a new word from the initial letters of a word group.
to make a new word from the last letters of a word-group.
to make a new word from the stem of the word.
to make a new word from the affixes of the original words.
What do we understand by etymological doublets? These are words which originated from the same source, but differ in phonemic shape and in meaning.