- •Seminars in theoretical grammar
- •I. Analyze the sentences and comment on the interaction between the grammatical and lexical levels of language.
- •II. Disambiguate the meaning of the sentences by reading them in two different ways and comment on the interaction between the prosodic and syntactic levels of the language.
- •III. Analyze the sentences and point out the peculiarities of the grammatical structure of English manifested in them.
- •Seminars in theoretical grammar semester VIII
- •I. Do the morphemic analysis of the following words on the lines of the traditional and distributional classifications:
- •II. Define the type of the morphemic distribution according to which the following words are grouped:
- •III. Analyze the sentences and comment on the interaction between the lexical and grammatical meanings.
- •V. Point out cases of neutralization and transposition:
- •VI. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian and point out the cases of cross-linguistic asymmetry in the parts of speech.
- •Seminars in theoretical grammar
- •II. Analyze the use of number in nouns in the following sentences and decide whether count/mass division is a distinction between words or ways of using words:
- •III. Define the syntagmatic meanings of the possessive case in the sentences:
- •IV. Comment on the oppositional reduction of the categorial nounal forms: a) the category of number
- •Seminars in theoretical grammar
- •I. State the function of the underlined verbs:
- •II. Comment on the use of tense forms, point out cases of neutralization and transposition.
- •III. Analyze the meanings of aspect and time correlation forms, point out cases of neutralization and transposition.
- •IV. State the form of the mood and its meaning in the following sentences:
- •V. Analyze the sentences and differentiate between the grammatical homonyms - the forms of the Passive voice and the compound nominal predicate.
- •VI. Analyze the sentences and point out the factors that necessitated the use of the passive voice.
- •Seminars in theoretical grammar semester VIII
- •Define the properties of word-groupings on the lines of different classifications.
- •Seminars in theoretical grammar semester VIII
- •The sentence as the main unit of syntax.
- •Constructive analysis of the sentence.
- •Structural analysis of the sentence.
- •I. State the structural type of the sentences.
- •II. Which of the following composite sentences are compound and which are complex? Why? How many clauses does each sentence consist of? What kind of syntactic relation is there between the clauses?
- •III. Define the relations between the clauses of the compound sentences:
- •Seminars in theoretical grammar semester VIII
- •Constituent analysis of the sentence.
- •Actual division and communicative sentence types.
- •Semantic analysis of the sentence.
- •The pragmatic aspect of the he sentence.
- •I. Define the type of the constituents of the following sentences.
- •II. Dwell upon the actual division of the sentences and the language means used to mark it.
- •III. Identify the semantic roles of the arguments in the sentences below.
- •IV. Define the communicative sentence type and the speech-act features of these sentences.
Seminars in theoretical grammar
SEMESTER VIII
Seminar IV
The Verb and its Grammatical Categories
A general outline of the verb as a part of speech: the categorial semantics, categories, syntactic functions. Classifications of verbs (morphological, lexical-morphological (semantic) and functional).
Grammatical categories of English verbs.
The category of person and number: traditional and modern interpretations.
The category of tense: the basic notions connected with the category of tense (lexical/grammatical denotation of time; "the present moment"). Modern conceptions of English tenses. Functional re-evaluation of tense forms in context.
The category of aspect: the problems of the aspective characterization of the verb. Lexico-grammatical categories in the field of aspect.
The category of voice. Passive in the English voice system. The peripheral elements of the passive field in modern English. Reflexive voice. Reciprocal voice. Middle voice.
The category of mood. Language means of expressing modality. The most controversial problems connected with mood forms. The Imperative Mood. The Subjunctive Mood.
Seminar V
The oppositional reduction of the verbal categories. Neutralization and transposition of verbal forms.
Non-finite forms of the verb.
A general outline of verbals: the categorial semantics, categories, syntactic functions.
The infinitive and its properties. The categories of the infinitive.
The gerund and its properties. The categories of gerund. The notion of half-gerund.
The present participle, the past participle, and their properties.
Modal verbs.
List of terms:
finite forms of the verb (finites), non-finite forms of the verb (verbids, verbals), phrasal verbs, notional verb, functional verb, semi-functional verb, auxiliary verb, modal verb, link verb, aspective meaning, limitive (terminative) verb, unlimitive (non-terminative) verb, statal verb, actional verb, transitive verb, intransitive verb, valence (valency), obligatory/optional valence, supplementive verb, the category of finitude, full predication (primary, genuine, or complete predication) vs. semi-predication (secondary, or potential predication), Infinitive, ‘to-Infinitive’ (‘marked Infinitive’), ‘bare Infinitive’, split Infinitive, Gerund, half-gerund (fused participle, gerundial participle), verbal noun, Participle I (Present Participle, Active Participle), Participle II (Past Participle, Passive Participle), Complex Subject constructions, Complex Object constructions, Absolute Participial constructions, the category of number (Singular vs. Plural), the category of person (1st person, 2nd person, 3d person), real time, time semantics in the language, absolute (absolutive) time (the past, the present, the future), relative time (priority, simultaneity, posteriority), modal colouring, aspect (aspective meaning), Aspect I - category of development (continuous vs. non-continuous), voice, the agent (the subject, the doer of the action), the patient (the object, the receiver of the action, the experiencer), deep semantic structure, surface syntactic structure, active voice, passive voice, semantic emphasis, speaker's perception ( subjective evaluation), reflexive voice meaning, reciprocal voice meaning, middle (medial) voice meaning, direct (indicative) mood forms, oblique (Subjunctive) mood forms, imperative mood
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