WorksheetsLecture 12. Language Classifications
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
What is the language classification?
There are two main kinds of language classification: genetic and typological.
True
False
What is the genetic language classification?
Languages share linguistic properties because they are genetically related, historically evolved from the parent language.
Languages shared formal characteristics of language, irrespective of their origin: properties of sounds, words, sentences
Which classifications are based on shared formal characteristics of languages, irrespective of their origin: properties of sounds, words and senyences
Historical comparative
Genetic
Typological
none of them
Which language has wh-fronting {w-questions in the front of sentence}
f.e: w-words are in the front of sentence.
Japanese
Korean
Egyptiam Arabic
English, Russian
Find the linguists related typological classification
Avraam Chomsky
Frederick Schlegel
August Humbold
Ferdinand de Saussere
Choose the right types of typological classification
Isolating language, aggulating language, flectional language
Each word in the sentence consists of just one morpheme.
I........ l......
(a)
What is the agglutating language?
Each morpheme expresses only one meaning element. The breaks between morhemes are usually easy to identify.
Each word in the sentence consists of just one morpheme
each affixal morpheme expresses more than one meaning
morphemes are frequently fused together
ev-im, ev-e, ev-in, ev-de ev-imiz are example of what?
Fusional language
Isolating language
Agglutinating language
Swahili language.
ni-na-soma (Present), ni-li-soma (Past), ni-ta-soma (Future)
example of what?
flectional language
agglutating language
polysynthetic language
isolating language
Find the right definition of flectional language.
each morpheme expresses only one meaning element
giving paradigmatic prominence to a syllable, while stress mainly gives syntagmatic prominence.
combining many morphemes to form very long words.
each affixal morpheme expresses more than one meaning
Flectional language is divided into two types: synthetic and analytic
True
False
Synthetic features in English
write-wrote-written
study-studied
come - are coming
take - will take
a devil-may-care attitude
a merry-go-round
Analytic features in English
I loose
They loose
come - are coming
take - will take
a book - the book
good - better
wife- wives
study-studies
Which classification is about sbasic word order in the sentence?
Semantical
Morphological
Phonological
Syntactic
Choose the correct line.
SOV 44%
VSO 9%
SVO 42%
VOS 3 %
OVS 1%
OSV 1%
SOV 45%
VSO 9%
SVO 40%
VOS 9 %
OVS 1%
OSV 8 %
SOV 45%
VSO 9%
SVO 42%
VOS 3 %
OVS 1%
OSV 1%
SOV 45%
VSO 42 %
SVO 9%
VOS 3 %
OVS 1%
OSV 1%
What types can be phonological classification classified?
Voiced and vowelic
vocalic and consonantal
Tonemes give ..... prominence to a syllable, while stress mainly gives ...... prominence.
paradigmatic, syntagmatic
high-stress and free stress
vowel and consonant
Free stress can be predictable.
True
False
Which languages can be example of last syllable stress ?
French, Turkish
French, Polish
Hungarian, Latvian
Czech, Swahili
Which language can be examples of first syllable stress language?
Czech, Hungarian
Latvian, Turkish
French, Turkish
Polish, Swahili
Which languages can be example of penultimate (last syllable) stress language?
Polish, Czech
Hungarian, Latvian
French, Turkish
Polish, Swahili
