Seminar 6. THE VERB:CLASSIFICATIONS AND PREDICATIVE
CATEGORIES
1.Verb classifications: Formal (standard/non-standard), syntactic (subjective/objective, transitive/intransitive), semantic (terminative, factive). 2.The predicative categories of the verb: person/number, tense, mood.
TASKS
A.Be ready to discuss the problems of the seminar
B.Classify the following verbs as terminative/non-terminative, analyze their definitions and identify the semantic component that points to some limit in the action or state:
To enter, to go, to spring, to jump, to fall, to sit, to throw, to sleep, to work, to exist, to love, to open, to escape, to laugh.
C. Use the following verbs in sentences to reveal their either terminative or non-terminative reading:
To write, to pour, to read, to hear, to understand, to show, to translate
D. Sum up the ways of expressing limit in the meaning of the verb (Tasks B and
C).
E. Sort out the following verbs as factive/non-factive:
To think, to know, to admit, to believe, to suppose, to notice
F. State the semantic class of the following verbal meaning (state, achievement, accomplishment, etc). Use the scheme of T.V.Bulygina’s classification:
To write, to burn, to draw, to strengthen, to climb, to communicate, to enjoy, to perform, to perfect, to smile, to sleep, to work, to flash, to bow
G. Underline the forms expresssing unreality and name them:
1.Ivory insisted that he be present 2.I wish I were ten years younger 3.He looked as if he knew about it 4.He looked as if he had seen a ghost
5.If I had a garden, I should grow tulips
6.If it hadn’t rained, I should have gone for a walk 7.I insist that he should meet us at the station
8.I wish he wouldn’t interrupt me
9.I’m telling you this so that you may write to your parents about it
10. I’m telling you this so that you can/could write to your parents about it 11.If he were to discover the truth he would never speak to us again
Reference
Ilyish B.A. The structure of Modern English. – L., 1973. Ch.XI, XIII, XV, XVI
Quirk R., Leech G., Greenbaum S., Svartvik J. University English Grammar. – М., 1981 p.32-48
Иванова И.П., Буракова В.В., Почепцов Г.Г. Теоретическая грамматика современного английского языка. – М., 1982
Fillmore Ch. Lexical entries for verbs. Foundation of Language. 1968, vol.4, p.373-393
Kiparsky P., Kiparsky C. Fact// Progress in Linguistics. –The Hague-Paris, 1970, pp.143-173
Камшилова О.Н. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка (электронный учебник). – СПб, СПбУУЭ, 2011
Ривлина А.А. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка (электр.учебник)
– реж. доступа – http://www.bgpu.ru/site/content/kafs/engphil/rivlina/grammar/lectures/
Biber D., Johansson S., Leech G., Conrad S., Finegan E. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Harlow: Longman, 2008. Также:
http://www.knigka.info/2008/08/23/longman-grammar-of-spoken-and- written.html
Seminar 7. VERB: PACKAGING CATEGORIES
1.Predicative and packaging verbal categories
2.Approaches to the category of aspect in different linguistic traditions
3.Progressive / non-progressive aspect. The meaning of be Ving form
4.Perfective / non-perfective aspect
5.The category of voice in English.
TASKS
A.Be ready to speak on the problems of the seminar
B.Analyze the verb forms in Task B to Seminar 5
C.Translate the following. Mind the voice of Russian-"СЯ" -Verbs and the way their meanings can be rendered in English."
1.Книга читается легко, хотя в ней много незнакомых слов
2.Они обычно ссорились друг с другом, затем сердились и расходились, так и не помирившись
3.Товар хорошо продается
4.Мне вспоминаются дни моего детства
5.Эта ткань стирается легко
6.Всем желающим предлагается кратковременный отдых
7.Ключ никак не поворачивается в двери
8.Фильм начинается с монолога героини
9.Когда они поднялись в горы, занималась заря
10.Если бы вы были внимательнее, мы бы не заблудились
11.Он умылся, побрился, переоделся и ушел
12.Ребенок очень изменился за лето
13.История распространилась по всему городу
14.Вы должны обратиться за помощью к товарищам
15.Эта дверь открывается от порывов ветра
Reference
Ilyish B.A. The structure of Modern English. – L., 1973. Ch. VIII, IX, X,
XII
Quirk R., Leech G., Greenbaum S., Svartvik J. University English Grammar. – М., 1981 p.40-58
Иванова И.П., Буракова В.В., Почепцов Г.Г. Теоретическая грамматика современного английского языка. – М., 1982
Камшилова О.Н. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка (электронный учебник). – СПб, СПбУУЭ, 2011
Ривлина А.А. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка (электр.учебник)
– реж. доступа – http://www.bgpu.ru/site/content/kafs/engphil/rivlina/grammar/lectures/
Biber D., Johansson S., Leech G., Conrad S., Finegan E. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Harlow: Longman, 2008. Также:
http://www.knigka.info/2008/08/23/longman-grammar-of-spoken-and- written.html
Seminar 8. WORDS OF FUNCTIONAL CLASS
I. WORDS THAT SUBSTITUTE AND WORDS THAT POINT
1.Pronouns and their classification
2.Typology of pro-forms (pro-Nouns, pro-Adjectives, pro-Adverbs and pro-
Verbs)
3.The function of substitution (word substitutes and sentence substitutes)
4.The function of pointing. Anaphora/cataphora
II. THE ARTICLE AND OTHER NOUN DETERMINERS
1.Semantic functions of the article (identifying, class, aspective, numeric, generative)
2.The class of noun determiners
III. BUILD WORDS: MODIFIERS AND CONNECTORS
1.Grammatical and non-grammatical modifiers
2.English connectors (prepositions and conjunctions)
TASKS
A.Analyze the use of N-determiners in sentences 3, 4, 5 and 11 of Task A to Seminar 5
B.Write out all noun determiners in Task A to Seminar 5 and classify them
C.Write out the words with the function of substitute in sentences 2, 5, 12
D.Write out the words with the function of pointing in sentences 3, 9, 10
E.Identify the part of speech for the underlined words:
1.The only thing is to cut the knot for good /Galsworthy/.
2.I have only just come, I have not seen him yet /Shaw/.
3.You never talk anything but nonsense /Wilde/.
4.I relied on him so much, but he never appeared /Smith/.
5. .Once he got inside the dressing room, Jack lay down and shut his eyes /Hemingway/. 6. And life, unfortunately, is something that you can lead but once /Maugham/
7.After dinner they sat about and smoked /Aldington/.
8.After she had left me I brooded on my situation /Clark/.
9.Soon after, he went to live in Wales /Hornby/.
10.You have never worked at anything like this before, have you? /Dreiser/
11.She thought for a moment before she replied /Trollope/.
12.A little before midnight the thick fog that had been falling over the city became rain /Saroyan/.
13."You will be sure to come?" said Mr.Snodgrass. "Oh, certainly" /Dickens/.
14 .Lammlein rose, "We have fulfilled our obligations", he said pompously, and yet not quite, certainly.
15.She looked at him simply, directly.../Dreiser/.
16.Fleur having declared that it was "simply too wonderful to stay indoors", they all went out /Galsworthy/
F.Make a report on the article Шмелев А.Д. «Общие» слова // Слово в тексте и словаре (see the Reference). Comment on the connection of the article with the Seminar 8 topic.
Reference
Ilyish B.A. The structure of Modern English. – L., 1973.
Quirk R., Leech G., Greenbaum S., Svartvic J. University English Grammar. – М.,
1981
Иванова И.П., Буракова В.В., Почепцов Г.Г. Теоретическая грамматика современного английского языка. – М., 1982
Падучева Е.В. Наблюдатель как экспериенцер за кадром // Слово в тексте и словаре. Сборник статей к семидесятилетию академика Ю.Д.Апресяна. – М.,2000, с.185-201
Шмелев А.Д. «Общие» слова // Слово в тексте и словаре. Сборник статей к семидесятилетию академика Ю.Д.Апресяна. – М.,2000, с.266-280
Камшилова О.Н. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка (электронный учебник). – СПб, СПбУУЭ, 2011
Biber D., Johansson S., Leech G., Conrad S., Finegan E. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Harlow: Longman, 2008. Также:
http://www.knigka.info/2008/08/23/longman-grammar-of-spoken-and- written.html