Theoretical english grammar assessment

SPEECH ACT: LANGUAGE AND SPEECH. THEIR LEVELS
AND UNITS
1. What is the definition of speech act? What does it consist of?
2. Speech act consists of language and speech. What is the difference between these two phenomena?
3. What do you understand by etic and emic levels? What are their synonyms?
4. What language and speech levels do you know?
5. What is the difference between basic and non-basic levels?
6. There are dialects and idiolects. What is the difference between these two terms?
7. What are the definitions of “phone”, “morph”, “word”, “sentence”?
8. What is the difference between “morpheme”, “morph” and “allomorph”? Try to explain this using reliable examples.
9. If there are allo-elements like allophone, allomorph there must be allolexes and allosentences as well. Try to explain it with the help of examples.
10. When pronounced phonemes vary from person to person. How can one explain this phenomenon?


CHAPTER 3
THE MORPHEMIC STRUCTURE OF
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
1. What operation is called "morphemic analysis?"
2. What are the procedures for revealing morphemes suggested by Z. Harris and Ch. Hockett?
3. What is a morpheme?
4. What is a morph?
5. What is an allomorph?
6. What are the criteria to classify morphemes?
7. What morphemes do you know according to the functional classification?
8. What types of morphemes are distinguished according to the criterion of number correlation between form and content?
9. How is the word "level" translated into your mother tongue?
10. Why do we have to stratify language and speech?
11. What is the difference between primary and secondary levels?
12. Do all the linguists share the same opinion on the stratification of language?
13. How many basic or primary levels are there in language and speech?
14. What's the difference between language levels and speech levels?
15. Are there special terms for language and speech levels?
16. What does phonetical - phonological level study?
17. What does morphological level study?
18. What does lexicological level study?
19. What does syntax - minor study?
20. What does syntax - major study?
21. Do the levels function separately in speech or they function as one body?
22. What is the function of the word "allo"?
23. What types of linguistic relations between language and speech units do you know?
24. What are the terms which are used to express the paradigmatic relations between linguistic units?
25. What do you understand by coordinative relation?
26. What`s the main difference between paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations?
27. What`s the difference between semantic and formal types of paradigmatic relations?
28. There are two types of predicative relations. What is the difference between them?