- •Міністерство освіти інауки, молоді та спорту україни
- •Програма
- •Затверджено на засіданні методичної ради
- •Пояснювальна записка
- •Перелік теоретичних питань, що виносяться на комплексний державний екзамен
- •Основні положення теорії мови, що виносяться на комплексний державний екзамен
- •General american / network english as the american english pronunciation standard
- •Contemporary sociolinguistic situation in the usa
- •General American phonological and phonetic description
- •Segmental differences at the phonological level
- •Systemic (differences in phonemic inventory)
- •Structural specification
- •Segmental differences at the phonetic level (realizational differences)
- •1 Pronunciation as a way of materializing of oral form of language
- •2. Phonic structure of language and its components
- •4. Units of language vs. Speech
- •4. . Ways of description of the phonic substance of language.
- •Pronunciation norm of english and its dictionary presentation
- •1. The definition of pronunciation norm and its characteristics.
- •2. Specialist dictionaries of English pronunciation.
- •Phonological and phonetic features of rp
- •Rp / bbc English as the British national standard of pronunciation
- •1.2. Phonological and phonetic dimensions of rp / bbc English
- •Word stress Outline
- •1. The nature of English word stress
- •2. Types of English word stress
- •3. Word Stress Tendencies
- •4. English word stress functions
- •5. Word accentual patterns.
- •9. Grammar in the system of language. Analytical and synthetical forms. Lingual levels. Units of language.
- •10. Parts of speech ( definition of the part of speech, classification of parts of speech, рrinciples of their classification, notional and functional parts of speech).
- •11. Noun (general characteristics (categorical meaning, formal markers, syntactic functions), the categories of number, case, gender).
- •12. Verb: (general characteristics (categorical meaning, formal markers, syntactic functions), the categories of tense, aspect, voice, mood.
- •13. Phrase. General characterisrics. Types of phrases.
- •14. Sentence. General characteristics, classification of sentences. Parts of sentence.
- •15. English Etymology (native words, borrowed words).
- •- The Scandinavian Element in the English vocabulary. The linguistic result the Viking raids on Britain which began in ad 787 and continued at intervals for some 200 years was threefold:
- •16. General characteristics of English Vocabulary (borrowed words, etymological doublets, hybrids; international words; neologisms; shortening; lexical and graphic abbreviations; acronyms).
- •17. Word-building. Affixation: prefixes, their classification; suffixes, their classification; productive and unproductive affixes.
- •18. English Phraseology.
- •19. Variants and dialects of the English Language: American / British variant of the English language and the lexical peculiarities.
- •20. The word and its meaning (denotative and connotative meanings of the word; components of the connotative meanings of the word).
- •21. Expressive means of semasiology (language units of secondary nomination; metaphor; metonymy; irony).
- •22. Syntactic stylistic means (classification of syntactic expressive means and stylistic devices; the word order; inversion; syntactic repetition).
- •Список літератури для підготовки до теоретичного питання Історія англійської мови
- •Теоретична граматика
- •Лексикологія
- •Стилістика
- •Теоретична фонетика
- •Критерії оцінювання відповіді студента з теоретичного питання
11. Noun (general characteristics (categorical meaning, formal markers, syntactic functions), the categories of number, case, gender).
- The categorial meaning of the noun is “substance” or “thingness”. Nouns directly name various phenomena of reality and have the strongest nominative force among notional parts of speech: practically every phenomenon can be presented by a noun as an independent referent, or, can be substantivized. Nouns denote things and objects proper (tree), abstract notions (love), various qualities (bitterness), and even actions (movement). All these words function in speech in the same way as nouns denoting things proper.
- Formally, the noun is characterized by a specific set of word-building affixes and word-building models, which mark a noun: suffixes of the doer (worker, naturalist, etc.), suffixes of abstract notions (laziness, rotation, security, elegance, etc.), special conversion patterns (to find – a find), etc. As for word-changing categories, the noun is changed according to the categories of number (boy-boys), case (boy-boy’s), and article determination (boy, a boy, the boy). Formally the noun is also characterized by specific combinability with verbs, adjectives and other nouns. The noun is the only part of speech which can be prepositionally combined with other words, e.g.: the book of the teacher, to go out of the room, away from home, typical of the noun, etc.
- The most characteristic functions of the noun in a sentence are the function of a subject and an object, since they commonly denote persons and things as components of the situation, e.g.: The teacher took the book. Besides, the noun can function as a predicative (part of a compound predicate), e.g.: He is a teacher; and as an adverbial modifier, e.g.: It happened last summer. The noun in English can also function as an attribute in the following cases: when it is used in the genitive case (the teacher’s book), when it is used with a preposition (the book of the teacher), or in contact groups of two nouns the first of which qualifies the second (cannon ball, space exploration, sea breeze, the Bush administration, etc.).
- The category of gender in English is a highly controversial subject in grammar. The fact is, the category of gender in English differs from the category of gender in many other languages, for example, in Russian, in French or in German. The category of gender linguistically may be either meaningful (or, natural), rendering the actual sex-based features of the referents, or formal (arbitrary). In Russian and some other languages the category of gender is meaningful only for human (person) nouns, but for the non-human (non-person) nouns it is formal; i.e., it does not correspond with the actual biological sex, cf.: рука is feminine, палец is masculine, тело is neuter, though all of them denote parts of the human body.
-In English gender is a meaningful category for the whole class of the nouns, because it reflects the real gender attributes (or their absence/ irrelevance) of the referent denoted. It is realized through obligatory correspondence of every noun with the 3rd person singular pronouns - he, she, or it: man – he, woman – she, tree, dog – it. Personal pronouns are grammatical gender classifiers in English. The category of gender is formed by two oppositions organized hierarchically. The first opposition is general and opposes human, or person nouns, distinguishing masculine and feminine gender (man – he, woman – she) and all the other, non-human, non-person nouns, belonging to the neuter gender (tree, dog – it). The second opposition is formed by the human nouns only: on the lower level of the opposition the nouns of masculine gender and of feminine gender are opposed.
- The category of number presents a classic example of a binary privative grammatical opposition. The category of number is expressed by the paradigmatic opposition of two forms: the singular and the plural. The strong member in this opposition, the plural, is marked by special formal marks, the main of which is the productive suffix –(e)s which exists in three allomorphs - [s], [z], [iz], e.g.: cats, boys, roses. The singular is regularly unmarked (weak member).
- The category of case in English constitutes a great linguistic problem. Linguists argue, first, whether the category of case really exists in modern English, and, second, if it does exist, how many case forms of the noun can be distinguished. The main disagreements concern the grammatical status of “noun + an apostrophe + –s” form (Ted’s book). There are four approaches which can be distinguished in the analysis of this problem (the theory of positional cases, the theory of prepositional cases, the theory of limited case, the theory of the possessive postposition”or “the theory of no case”). The theory of limited case” is the most widely accepted theory of case in English today. It was formulated by linguists H. Sweet, O. Jespersen and further developed by Russian linguists A. Smirnitsky, L. Barchudarov and others. It is based on the oppositional presentation of the category; the category of case is expressed by the opposition of two forms: the first form, “the genitive case”, is the strong, featured member of the opposition, marked by the postpositional element ‘–s’ e.g.: the girl’s books, the girls’ books; the second, unfeatured form is the weak member of the opposition and is usually referred to as “the common case” (“non-genitive”). The category of case is realized in full in animate nouns and restrictedly in inanimate nouns in English, hence the name – “the theory of limited case”.