Recommended reading:

1. Blokh M.Y. A Course in Theoretical English Grammar. - M: Vysshaya Shkola, 2000, Ch. IV.

2. Ilyish B.A. The Structure of modern English. - L.: Prosveschenie, 1971, Ch II, IV, VII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII.

3. Иванова Т.П., Бурлакова B.B., Почепцов Г.Г. Теоретическая грамматика современного английского языка.-М: Высш. Шк., 1981, С. 14-20.

4. Иофик Л.Л., Чахоян Л.П., Поспелова А.Г. Хрестоматия по теоретической грамматике английского языка. - Л.: Просвещение, 1981, С. 41-57.

5. Васильева А.К. О природе частей речи как системы классов полнозначных слов // Филолог, науки. - 1973. -№ 6.- С. 66-74.

6. Слюсарева Н.А. Проблемы функциональной морфологии современного английского языка. -М.: Наука, 1986. - 215 с.

7. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка/ Отв. ред. В.В.Бурлакова. - Л.: Изд-во Ленинградского университета, 1983. - С.29-118.

8. Лингвистический энциклопедический словарь/ Гл. ред. В.Н.Ярцева. - М.: Сов. Энциклопедия, 1990.

Additional tasks

1. The problem of deixis in modern Linguistics. Recommended reading

1. Бурлакова B.B. Дейксис // Спорные вопросы английской грамматики./ Отв. ред. В.В.Бурлакова. - Л.: Изд-во Ленингр. ун-та, 1988.- С. 74-88.

2. Вейхман Г.А. Новое в английской грамматике. - М.: Высшая школа, 1990.-С. 9-21.

3. Воронцова Г.Н. Очерки по грамматике английского языка. - М.: Изд. лит. на иностр. яз., 1960. - С. 157-162.

2. Теория полевой структуры частей речи. Recommended reading

1. Щур Г.С. Теории поля в лингвистике. - М.: Наука, 1974. -235с.

2. Попова З.Д. (ред.) Полевые структуры в системе языка. -Воронеж: Изд-во Воронежского пед ин-та, 1989. - С. 167-172.

Practical Tasks

1. Find in the book for your home reading the examples illustrating the given problems.

2. State what part of speech the words in bold type belong to.

1. Light moves quickest of all. My room is large and light. To light a cigarette one must have a match. 2. They are as like as two peas. My new coat cost me something like 300 roubles. Did you ever see the like of that? Children don't like to go to bed early. 3. The earth is round. The doctor begins his round early in the morning. The pebbles in the sea are rounded by the water. Go straight, don't look round! I should like to travel round the world. 4. One can't iron the linen with a cold iron. Iron goods are made at iron-works. 5. Paper is used for writing. The ceiling must be whitewashed and the walls papered. 6. Whom did you address? What's his address? 7. Our students work much. She is greatly interested in her scientific work. 8. We buy pens and pencils at the stationer's shop. One must be an experienced writer to pen such an important letter well.

1. "She is worried... about your cousin Ugremont." — "Well, of course," I tut-tutted sympathetically. (Wodehouse). 2. "I don't suppose it was more than a couple of ticks later before she was thanking me brokenly and I was not-at-all-ing." (Wodehouse). 3. What a face for wrappers' Sort of Mona Lisa-ish! (Galsworthy). 4. Already the men had shouldered their staves and were making for the place. (Mansfield). 5. "Let him stop Dulcing me all day long. Dulce this, Dulce that, where's Dulce?.. I'll Dulce out of here one of the days." (Bates), 6. "I just housekeep for him," she said. (Bates). 7. I thought of Phuong, who would be haggling over the price of fish in the third street... before going for her elevenses to the milk-bar. (Greene). 8. Dear Frank. I think I had shocked him. What a Frankish expression, too, "above board"! (Du Maurier). 9. She would finger the volumes a little suspiciously. (Du Maurier). 10. Poor wretch... He did not know what he was talking about. He had a child's mentality too, regarding likes and dislikes. (Du Maurier). 11. The Grand Babylon... stood an easy first among the hotels of Europe... (Bennett). 12. "No, no," said Racksole quickly. "I don't want any I'm afraid's. This is business". (Bennett). 13. His complexion is too dark for yellows. Yellows don't suit him. (Jerome). 14. "What on earth are you doing in Hollywood?" — 1 came to see you" — "You did." — "Yes" — "Pretty cousinly." (Wodehouse). 15. "What's for afters, Margaret?" ...the girl said that there were gooseberries... He detected... that south-country... expression ... by which afters signified dessert. (Bates). 16. It was only a little kettle, but it was full of pluck, and it up and spit at him, (Jerome).