- •Seminar 5
- •Verb and its non-finite forms (verbids)
- •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.
- •Seminar 6
- •Verbal categories
- •Кобрина, н.А. Теоретическая грамматика современного английского языка: учебное пособие / н.А. Кобрина, н.Н. Болдырев, а.А. Худяков. – м.: Высшая школа, 2007. – с. 75-91, 91-107, 107-119.
- •1. Get ready to answer the questions below.
- •2. Find Russian equivalents for the following terms; give definitions.
- •3. А) Define the person and number of the verbs in the sentences below, explain their usage.
- •4. Define if the verbs shall (should) and will (would) are used 1) as modal verbs, 2) as auxiliaries rendering the future, and 3) cases when their modal or future meanings are implicit
- •5. Comment on the meanings of the tense verbal forms. Name the cases with oppositional reduction
- •6. А) Define the type of ‘medial’ voice types of the verbs in the sentences below, use transformations to prove your words.
- •8. Define the verbal mood in the sentences below.
- •Seminar 7 adjective and adverb
- •Кобрина, н.А. Теоретическая грамматика современного английского языка: учебное пособие / н.А. Кобрина, н.Н. Болдырев, а.А. Худяков. – м.: Высшая школа, 2007. – с. 121-131, 153-164. Tasks
- •1. Get ready to answer the questions below.
- •2. Find Russian equivalents for the following terms; give definitions.
- •3. Determine if the degrees of comparison of the adjectives in the sentences below render absolute or elative superiority.
- •4. Translate the category of state words below into Russian and give their synonyms (they can be not very close ones). Illustrate their semantic similarity in word combinations.
- •6. А) Are the words below adjectives, adverbs or both (I.E. Fluctuant conversives)? Illustrate your opinion with contexts.
- •7. А) Split the adverbs below into qualitative, quantitative and circumstantial.
Seminar 5
Verb and its non-finite forms (verbids)
Sources:
Блох, М.Я. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка / М.Я. Блох. - М.: Высшая школа, 2003. – С. 95-112, С. 113-134.
Блох, М.Я. Практикум по теоретической грамматике английского языка / М.Я. Блох, Т.Н. Семенова, С.В. Тимофеева. – М.: Высшая школа, 2004. – С. 141-143, С. 144-147.
Additional:
Иванова, И.П. Теоретическая грамматика современного английского языка / И.П. Иванова, В.В. Бурлакова, Г.Г. Почепцов. - М.: Высшая школа, 1981. – С. 46-50, С. 80-87.
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.
Смирницкий, А.И. Морфология английского языка / А.И. Смирницкий. - М.: Изд-во лит-ры на иностранных языках, 1959. – С. 211-256, С. 197-211, 369-373, 400-432
TASKS
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 forms do the infinitives have? What semi-predicative constructions are made up by infinitives?
Features of which parts of speech does the gerund combine? What semi-predicative constructions are made up by gerunds? What is the difference between the gerund, the infinitive and the verbal noun?
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