- •Seminar 5 noun: the categories of number, case and article determination
- •Get ready to answer the questions below.
- •2. Find Russian equivalents for the following terms; give definitions.
- •3. Use a dictionary to split the nouns into 1) countable; 2) singularia tantum nouns; 3) pluralia tantum nouns. Illustrate their use in context (sentences):
- •7. Arrange the phrases into two columns according to the type of their casal semantics (on the principle of differentiating between possession and qualification) and use the proper articles with them:
- •8. Study the poem below and explain the use of genitive case in it.
- •9. Use the appropriate article, define its meaning and explain your choice with the help of substitution or replacement test like in the model.
- •10. Is the non-use of article meaningful in the examples below? What does the zero article mean in each case?
- •Seminar 6
- •Verb and its non-finite forms (verbids)
- •Кобрина, н.А. Теоретическая грамматика современного английского языка: учебное пособие / н.А. Кобрина, н.Н. Болдырев, а.А. Худяков. – м.: Высшая школа, 2007. – с. 61-75.
- •Get ready to answer the questions below.
- •2. Find Russian equivalents for the following terms; give definitions.
- •4. State the difference between the marked verbs in the following sentences and identify the subclasses the verbs belong to.
- •5. Group the verbs below into actional and statal. Explain your decisions.
- •6. Give contexts to illustrate their complementive and uncomplimentive usage.
- •7. А) Compare the usage of gerunds and infinitives in the sentences below and explain their semantic differences.
- •8. A) Read the poems below and say what parts of speech the words in bold belong to.
Get ready to answer the questions below.
What are semantic/formal/functional properties of the verb?
What are finite and not-finite forms of the verb?
What is the difference between notional, functional, and semi-functional verbs?
What subclasses do functional, and semi-functional verbs form?
What is the difference between actional and statal verb?
When do we speak about transposition of aspect forms?
What is the difference between limitive and unlimitive verbs?
When do we speak about neutralization of aspect forms?
How are the 2 subdivisions of notional verbs (actional/statal; limitive/unlimitive) connected?
What is valency?,
What is the difference between supplementive and complementive verbs?
What subclasses do supplementive and complementive verbs fall into?
What are verbal and non-verbal properties of verbids?
What does the category of finitude express?
Features of which parts of speech does the infinitive combine?
What semi-predicative constructions are made up by infinitives?
What forms do the infinitives have?
Features of which parts of speech does the gerund combine?
What is the difference between the gerund, the infinitive and the verbal noun?
What semi-predicative constructions are made up by gerunds?
Features of which parts of speech does participle I combine?
What semi-predicative constructions are made up by participle I?
What differentiates participles I and gerunds?
Features of which parts of speech does participle II combine?
What semi-predicative constructions are made up by participle II?
2. Find Russian equivalents for the following terms; give definitions.
finite forms of the verb (finites), non-finite forms of the verb (verbids, verbals), notional verb, (semi)-functional verb, predicate, predicative, predicator, auxiliary verb, modal verb, pure link verb, specifying link verb, verbid introducer, statal verb, actional verb, limitive verb, unlimitive verb, valence (valency), obligatory valence, supplementive verb, complementive verb, the category of finitude,
full predication, semi-predication, infinitive, ‘to-infinitive’ (‘marked infinitive’), ‘bare infinitive’, ‘split infinitive’, gerund, half-gerund, verbal noun, participle I (present participle, active participle), participle II (past participle, passive participle)
3. Define the class of the verbs below. Mind that different lexical-semantic variants of one verb may belong to several grammatical subclasses, and one phonetical word may represent two or more verbal homonyms.
For example:
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to be -
1) notional verb - “To be or not to be...”;
2) auxiliary verb - to be going (continuous aspect form), to be frightened (passive voice form);
3) modal verb - You are to stay here;
4) link verb - He is a poet.
to do, to have, can, to turn, to spend, will (would), to grow, to expect, to continue, to prove, to fall, to get, to feel