- •Lecture 5 topic: the adjective. The adverb. Points for discussion:
- •What does the Adjective denote as part of speech?
- •What may prove the semantically bound character of the adjective?
- •Is the adjective always dependent on the nouns?
- •Which grammatical categories can the adjective have in the English language?
- •Which syntactical functions can this part of speech have in a sentence
- •4.1.1. General characteristics of the adjective as a part of speech
- •4.1.2. Adjectival classifications: the main approaches to the problem.
- •Some points to clarify:
- •Where lies the fallacy of semantical classifications 2 and 3?
- •Where lies the fallacy of structural classifications?
- •What principals are the adjectival classifications based on?
- •4.2. The problem of the degree of comparison. The syntactical and analytical forms. The problems of the category.
- •The main forms of the degrees of comparison
- •Some points to clarify:
- •Do syntactical and analytical forms of the degrees of comparison correspond to each other?
- •How many degrees of comparison are distinguished?
- •Which principals are the models of comparison based on?
- •Some points to clarify:
- •5.3. Statives as grammatical notion. The problem of statives.
- •5.4. The main adjectival oppositions.
- •What does the Adverb denote as part of speech?
- •Is the adjective always dependent on the verbs?
- •Which grammatical categories can the adjective have in the English language?
- •Which syntactical functions can this part of speech have in a sentence
- •5.6.1. General characteristics of the adverb as a part of speech
- •5.6.2. Adverbial classifications: the main approaches to the problem
Some points to clarify:
Where lies the fallacy of the semantical classification 1?
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Where lies the fallacy of semantical classifications 2 and 3?
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Where lies the fallacy of structural classifications?
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What principals are the adjectival classifications based on?
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4.2. The problem of the degree of comparison. The syntactical and analytical forms. The problems of the category.
The category of adjectival comparison expresses the quantitative characteristic of the quality of a nounal referent. The category is ‘constituted by the opposition of the three forms known under the heading of degrees of comparison; the basic form (positive degree), having no features of comparison; the comparative degree form, having the feature of restricted superiority the superlative degree form, having the feature of unrestricted superiority. The whole of the double oppositional unity, considered from the semantic angle, constitutes a gradual ternary opposition.