“Grammaire générale de Port-Royal” was published in …

Who laid the foundation of a new linguistic theory acknowledging the study of a system of a given language as such?

The English language is considered to be

Comparatively few grammatical inflections are one of the chief features characterizing an… language.

A sparing use of sound alternations to denote grammatical forms is one of the chief features characterizing an … language.

A wide use of prepositions to denote relations between objects and to connect words in the sentence is one of the chief features characterizing an … language.

Prominent use of word order to denote grammatical relations: a more or less fixed word order is one of the chief features characterizing an … language.

… is the part of grammar, which treats of the forms of words.

… is the part of grammar, which treats of forms of phrases and sentences.

… is the smallest meaningful unit into which a word form may be divided.

The form “writers” can be divided into … morphemes.

the morpheme – writ- in “writers” expresses …

the morpheme – er- in “writers” expresses …

the morpheme – s in “writers” expresses

Two or more morphemes may sound the same but be basically different, that is they may be …

What morpheme denotes the comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs?

The absence of a morpheme indicating a certain meaning is … morpheme.

… morphemes serve to build words.

… morphemes have no lexical meaning or function.

An inflection morpheme can acquire a lexical meaning in some special cases. These are cases of …

The term … is taken in a wide sense and applied to any morpheme coming after the root morpheme , whether it is derivative or inflectional.

The term … is applied to any morpheme serving to derive a grammatical form and having no lexical meaning of its own.

… types of word-form derivation are those limited to changes in the body of the word, without having recourse to auxiliary words.

… types of word-form derivation are those implying the use of auxiliary words.

The ending … is used to form the plural of almost all nouns.

The ending … is used to form the possessive case of nouns.

The ending … is used to form the comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs.

The ending … is used to form the superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs.

The ending … is used for the third person singular in Present Simple.

The ending … is used for the past tense of certain verbs.

The ending … is used for the second participle of certain verbs.

The ending … is used for the first participle and also for the gerund.

By … alternations (a type of word-form derivation) we mean a way of expressing grammatical categories which consist in changing a sound inside the root.

… types of word-form derivation consist in using a word (devoid of any lexical meaning of its own) to express some grammatical category of another word.

Find the sentence in which the verb “have” has its lexical meaning.

Find the sentence in which the verb “do” has its lexical meaning.

By … (type of word-form derivation) we mean building a form of a word from an altogether different stem.

… is a type of word differing from other types in some grammatical point or points.

… is a type of word different from all other types in that it alone has the grammatical category of tense.

Find the principles of the parts of speech classifications.

The meaning of the Noun is …

The meaning of the Verb is …

The adjective expresses …

… denote either number or place in a sentence.

Meaning of the … is property of an action or of a property.

The meaning of … is obviously that of relations between things and phenomena.

… express connections between things and phenomena.

… express the speaker’s evaluations of the relations between an action and reality.

… express feelings. They are not names of feelings but the immediate expression of them.

… have the category of number.