Test Questions

1. Where is English spoken nowadays? What is meant by the phrase “English as a global language”?

2. Do the USA possess their own language? What is the status of American (Canadian, Australian) English?

3. What is the historical background of the formation of the lexical system of American English? What are ‘proper Americanisms’?

4. What relations exist between the lexical units of American English and British English?

5. What are the peculiarities of American English word-building system?

6. What are the grammatical pecularities of American English?

7. What are the relations between the different varieties of English nowadays?

8. What groups of local dialects in Great Britain and the USA can be singled out?

9. Why do Scottish English and Irish English have a special linguistic status and cannot be referred to as dialects?

10. What do you know about African-American Vernacular English?