Семинары по теоретической грамматике английского языка для бакалавров 4-го курса (направление 050300 филологическое образование профиль Иностранный язык) Семинары по морфологии

Seminar № 1.

MAIN NOTIONS OF MORPHOLOGY.

1. The structure of the word. The definition of a morpheme. The notion of the allomorph.

2. Types of morphemes. The problem of the zero morpheme.

3. Grammatical meaning. Means of expressing grammatical meanings.

4. Grammatical form. The problem of analytical forms (discontinuous morphemes). A word-form and a paradigm.

5. Definition of a grammatical category. The use of oppositional method in defining a grammatical category. Oppositional reduction.

Reference:

1. Blokh M.Y.. A Course in Theoretical English Grammar. M., 2005, Chapter II (§ 1-2 main notions; § 3, 5 types of morphemes), Ch. III (§ 1-4 oppositions). www.classes.ru

2. Блох М.Я., Семенова Т.Н., Тимофеева С.В. Theoretical English Grammar. Seminars. (Практикум по теоретической грамматике английского языка) М., 2004. c.45-60, 65-68 (oppositions).

3. Барабаш Т.А. Грамматика английского языка. М., 2001 с. 4-12.

4. Ilyish B.A.The structure of Modern English, 1971, с.10-28 (Introd.& ch.1)

5. Иванова И.П. Бурлакова В.В., Почепцов Г.Г.Теоретическая грамматика английского языка. Л., 1981, с. 4-14. www.classes.ru

6. Прибыток И.И. Theory of English Grammar;.М., Academia, 2008. с. 10-24. (бонус изд-ва – первые 50 стр. книги можно скачать по ссылке:

www.academia-moscow.ru/off-line/_books/fragment_9822.pdf

Seminar № 2

PARTS OF SPEECH

1. Parts of speech as major lexical-grammatical classes of words.

2. Criteria applied in discriminating parts of speech: meaning, form, function.

3. Notional & formal parts of speech. Their basic differences.

4. The system of parts of speech in modern English and its problems

5. Formal parts of speech (function words). The status of articles.

6. H.Sweet’s and Ch. Fries`s classification of word classes.

Reference:

1. Blokh M.Y. A Course in Theoretical English Grammar. M., 2005, Chapter IV (§1-5, §6 – Ch.Fries’s classification) www.classes.ru

2. Блох М.Я., Семенова Т.Н., Тимофеева С.В. Theoretical English Grammar. Seminars. (Практикум по теоретической грамматике английского языка) М., 2004. c. 79-92, 95-100.

3. Барабаш т.А. Грамматика английского языка. М., 2001 с. 12-16.

4. Ilyish B.A.The structure of Modern English, 1971, CH.2 www.classes.ru

5. Иванова И.П. Бурлакова В.В., Почепцов Г.Г.Теоретическая грамматика английского языка. Л., 1981 c. 14-20, 29-30 (артикль), 40-46, 91-99. www.classes.ru

6. Прибыток И.И. Theory of English Grammar;.М., Academia, 2008. с. 25-33. (бонус изд-ва – первые 50 стр. книги можно скачать по ссылке:

www.academia-moscow.ru/off-line/_books/fragment_9822.pdf

7. Khlebnikova I.B. Essentials of English Morphology. M., 2001. с.18-32.

8. Readings in the Theory of English Grammar (сост. Л.Л. Иофик, Л.П.Чахоян) М., 1970, 1981 pp. 47-50, 103-105

For reports:

1. Архипов И.К. Грамматика английского языка. Артикли. М., 2006 с. 5-8, 88-114.

Seminar № 3

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES OF THE NOUN

1. Main subclasses of Nouns & the category of number. Grammatical opposition of plural & singular in count nouns.

2. Irregular use of plural forms of non-count nouns. Lexicalization of plural forms.

3. Collective nouns & nouns of multitude. Pluralia tantum and Singularia tantum classes of nouns.

4. The category of case. Definition. Possessive case. Common case.

5. The problem of the status of the `s-morpheme & the existence of a case system in English.

6. Semantic and structural typology of genitive case.

7. The category of gender: the problem of its existence in modern English.

8. Gender issues: linguistic and socio-cultural aspects.

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