5.2. Tasks

5.2.1. Theoretical questions.

1. Typological characteristics of English and Ukrainian adjectives as parts of speech.

2. Lexico-grammatical classes of English and Ukrainian adjectives: allomorphic and isomorphic features.

3. Stem structure of English and Ukrainian adjectives: allomorphic and isomorphic features.

4. The category of degrees of comparison of English and Ukrainian adjectives: allomorphic and isomorphic features.

5.2.2. Practical assignments.

1. Put into isomorphic and allomorphic lexico-grammatical classes:

Cold, big, golden, Shakespearian, yellow, bluish, good, English, urban, private, western, Crimean, wooden.

Матусин, великий, червоний, Шевченківський, найгірший, великий, дерев’яний, англійський, братів, соловейкові, святковий.

2. Put into allomorphic and isomorphic groups on the basis of the stem-structure:

Capable, high, wet, eastern, political, careless, ice-cold, four-storied, all-mighty, counteractive, indisputable, red, grammatical, foolish, breast-high.

Певен, багатющий, дрібнесенький, товариська, доїльний, грушевий, синівський, великий, читацький, доцентровий, чорногрива, задніпровський, чотириповерховий, гречаний, ладен, сестрин, винен, сестрині.

3. Find allomorphism and isomorphism in the expression of degrees of comparison by the following Ukrainian and English adjectives:

Less, more important, happier, longest, more interesting, better, supreme, cold.

Молодший, найкращий, щонайдобрішою, ліпшому, босий, гарний, поганого, набагато важливішими, дужчий, далі.

Seminar 6

TYPOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE NUMERAL

6.1. Basic notes

6.1.1. Definition

Numeral is a part of speech which is characterized by the following features:

(1) lexico-grammatical meaning of number;

(2) typical stem-building elements, cf. -teen (fifteen), -ty (twenty), -th (fifth); -дцять (двадцять), -надцять (дванадцять);

(3) right-hand combinability with nouns, articles (the four days), adverbs (the two below/ahead; двоє внизу/попереду), left-hand combinability with pronouns (all the three, some five or so; усі четверо), bilateral combinability with prepositions (two from ten; два з десяти);

(4) functions of an attribute (three girls/три дівчини), predicative complement (she came third/вона прийшла першою), subject (The first ten have arrived/Перші десятеро приїхали), adverbial modifier (They ran four and four/ Вони бігли по чотири).

6.1.2. Classes

In accordance with their lexico-grammatical meaning numerals fall into such isomorphic groups as:

(1) cardinals, denoting number, cf. three, five, twenty-one; три, п’ять, двадцять один;

(2) ordinals, denoting order, cf. the third, the fifth, the twenty-first; перший, п’ятий, двадцять перший;

(3) fractionals, denoting parts of a whole, cf. two tenth; дві десятих.

Besides, in Ukrainian there are also allomorphic groups of collective numerals denoting quantity as indivisibly unity, cf. двоє, четверо, двадцятеро, п’ятеро, десятеро and indefinite cardinal numerals denoting indefinite number, cf. кількасот, кількадесят, кільканадцять/кільканадцятеро.