B the lumper attitude c the addressee’s not being interested in the intended action

2. The theory of linguistic pragmatics is associated with the names of such scholars as:

A Vinogradov

B Ostin

C Vezhbitskaya

3. Among syntactic processes there may be distinguished a expansion

B subordination

C elimination

4. Phrases are subdivided into :

A coordinate

B accumulative

C tertiary

Section 2

Match the type of linguistic analysis with its name :

1. D 3 1a/he,she 2-d D 3 1b/it 4

A oppositional

B distributional

C logical

2. ‘If that true adventurer of yours comes here we are unlikely to succeed’. F :: Pr

A IC-analysis

B oppositional

3. ‘The  true  adventurer  watched  a  fascinating  scene | there’.

A IC-analysis

B transformational

4. ‘The adventurer reminded me of the scene’.

P (x,y,z)

A transformational

B logical

5.

S

NP VP

d NP VP D

A N V NP

d NP

A N

‘The true adventurer watched a fascinating scene there’.

A IC- analysis

B logical

Section 3

Choose the correct answer to the given questions.

1.The role interaction is connected with

A the category of verb voices

B the category of noun cases

C the character of objective relations between the objects in the situation

2. Injunctive pragmatic type expresses one’s

A directions

B command

C request

3. What syntactic process is expressed in the following sentence:

The trees in the Battersea Gardens across the river had a faded look.

A modification

B contamination

C complication

4. According to prof. Barkhudarov L.S. a phrase is

A a combination of notional words that denote complex phenomena and their interconnections

B a group of syntactically connected notional words within a sentence

C a word-group without predication comprised by notional words

Section 4

Read the statement and confirm or don’t confirm it by (A)‘yes’ or (B)‘no’

1. The indirect meaning of the sentence includes proposition, relevance and explicitness.

2. The process of substitution is presented in English by substantivization.

3. An Attribute is considered on the level of a sentence.

4. By distribution of an element we understand the sum of its total environments.

5. Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations are correspondingly referred to as ‘in absentia’ and ‘in praesentia’.

6. The privative opposition is presented by a marked and an unmarked terms.

7. Headed phrases are considered to be ‘exocentric’.

8. Traditional classification of Parts of Speech is based on three criteria: semantic, morphological and syntactical.

9. Prospectively connected sentences are characterized by ‘epiphoric’ cohesion .

10. The opposite of ‘adjectivization’ is ‘nominalization’.

11. The category of voice counts two categorial meanings: Active and Passive.

12. The denotative characteristics of a phrase and a sentence are different.

13. ‘Free’ and ‘bound’ morphemes are distinguished on the basis of self-dependence.

14. The weak term of the privative opposition is used in a narrower range of contexts than the strong term.

Section 5