- •Theoretical Grammar
- •The subject-matter of theoretical grammar. Its relation to practical grammar.
- •2. Morphology and syntax as two main parts of grammar.
- •3. Language as a structure. Language levels.
- •4. Systemic relations in language. Syntagmatic relations.
- •5. Systemic relations in language. Paradigmatic relations.
- •6. Explicit grammatical categories. Implicit lexico-grammatical categories. Types and kinds of oppositions. The notion of a paradigm.
- •7. General characteristics of the verb as a part of speech. Grammatically relevant subclasses of verbs (transitive/intransitive, terminative/non- terminative).
- •8. The noun as a part of speech. Grammatically relevant classes of nouns. Morphological, semantic and syntactic properties of the noun.
- •9. Syntax as a part of grammar. Its practical objections and concepts.
- •10. Classification of sentences according to the purpose of utterance and according to their structure.
- •Лексикологія
- •1. The morphological structure of a word. (Морфологічна структура слова).
- •2. Word-formation. Productive ways: affixation, conversion, compounding, shortening. (Словотвір. Продуктивні способи словотвору: афіксація, конверсія, словоскладання, скорочення).
- •4. Polysemy in English. Homonyms and their classifications. (Полісемія в англійській мові. Омоніми та їх класифікації).
- •5. Synonymy and antonymy in English. Neologisms and archaisms. (Синонімія й антонімія в англійській мові. Неологізми та архаїзм).
- •Теоретична фонетика
- •The articulatory classification of the English vowels. (Класифікація англійських голосних за артикуляцією.) the main principles of all current articulatory classifications of vow.
- •Articulatory and physiological classification of e vowels.
- •Articulatery and physiological classification of e vowels. According to the degree of tenseness, length.
- •Articulatery and physiological classification of e vowels. According to the stability of articulation.
- •Articulatory and physiological classification of English consonants. Accord to the manner of noise production and the type of obstruction, position of the soft palate.
- •English word stress: notions, types, functions. (Словесний наголос в англійській мові: поняття,типи,функції.)
- •The syllable as an integral part of the word. Types of syllables in English Склад як невід’ємна частина слова. (Типи складів в англійській мові.)
- •Functional characteristics of the syllable
- •Prosodic system of the English language/ intonation. (Просодійна система англійської мови/ інтонація.)
- •Окремі питання по граматиці!!!
- •1.Категорії роду та відмінка в англійській мові. (Categories of gender and case in English).
- •2.Категорія числа в системі англійської мови. Абсолютна однина й абсолютна множина. (Number in the system of the English language. Singularia tantum and pluralia tantum).
- •3.Час і аспект як граматичні категорії дієслова в англійській мові. (Tense and aspect as grammatical categories of the English verb).
- •4. Категорія стану дієслів в англійській мові. Проблема середнього стану. (Voice in the system of the English verb. The problem of medial voices).
- •5.Категорія способу в англійській мові. Дійсний, наказовий та умовний способи. (Category of mood in English . Indicative, Imperative, Subjunctive).
- •Indicative Mood:
- •Imperative Mood:
- •Infinitive Mood:
- •6.Просте речення як монопредикативна конструкція. Актуальне членування речення. (Actual division of the sentence).
- •7.Складносурядне речення і типи сурядного зв’язку (Compound sentence and types of coordination).
- •8.Складнопідрядне речення як поліпредикативна конструкція (Complex sentence as a polypredicative construction).
- •Країнознавство
- •Geographical and climatic peculiarities of the United Kingdom. (Загальні відомості про географічні та кліматичні особливості Об’єднаного Королівства Великобританії.)
- •The usa: regional, geographical, climatic and economical peculiarities. (Сполучені Штати Америки: регіональні кліматичні та географічні особливості.)
- •A) Political system of the uk.
- •4. Система освіти у Великобританії. Відомі університети та коледжі./Education in Great Britain. Famous universities and colleges.
- •5.Свята та традиції англомовних країн./Traditions and holidays of English-speaking countries.
- •6.Загальні відомості про країни – члени Співдружності./General facts about the Commonwealth members.
- •История английского языка
- •Old Enlgish lexical system
- •2.Phonetic processes in Middle English (system of consonants)
- •3. Old English grammatical system.
- •Middle English grammatical system
- •Phonetic changes in Old, Middle and Modern English.
- •Independent changes. Development of monophthongs
- •Velar consonants in Early Old English. Growth of New Phonemes
9. Syntax as a part of grammar. Its practical objections and concepts.
Syntax as a part of grammar. Kinds of syntactic theories.
Syntax can in linguistics be described as the study of the rules, or "patterned relations" that govern the way the words in a sentence come together. Syntax attempts to systematize descriptive grammar, and is unconcerned with prescriptive grammar (see Prescription and description).
Transformational-Generative Grammar. The main point of the T-G G is that the endless variety of sentences in a L can be reduced to a finite number of kernels by means of transformations. These kernels serve the basis for generating sentences by means of syntactic processes.
Constructional Syntax. Constructional analysis of syntactic deals with the constructional significance/insignificance of a part of the sentence for the whole syntactic unit. The theory is based on the obligatory or optional environment of syntactic elements.
Communicative Syntax. It is primarily concerned with the analysis of utterances from the point of their communicative value and informative structure.
Pragmatic approach to the study of syntactic units can briefly be described as the study of the way language is used in particular contexts to achieve particular goals. Speech Act Theory was first introduced by John Austin. The notion of a speech act presupposes that an utterance can be said with different intentions or purposes and therefore can influence the speaker and situation in different ways
Textlinguistics studies the text as a syntactic unit, its main features and peculiarities, different ways of its analysis.
Discourse analysis focuses on the study of language use with reference to the social and psychological factors that influence communication.
Basic syntactic notions. Syntactic units, syntactic relations, syntactic connections.
The relation between a unit and other units (inner relations between units). No unit can be used independently; it serves as an element in the system of other units. This kind of meaning is called syntactic. Formal relation of units to one another is studied by syntactics (or syntax). Only inner (syntactic) relations between linguistic units served the basis for linguistic analysis while the reference of words to the objective reality and language users were actually not considered
Syntactic units can go into 3 types of syntactic relations.
Coordination (SR1) – syntagmatic relations of independence. SR1 can be observed on the phrase, sentence and text levels. Coordination may be symmetric and asymmetric. Symmetric coordination is characterized by complete interchangeability of its elements – pens and pencils. Asymmetric coordination occurs when the position of elements is fixed: ladies and gentlemen. Forms of connection within SR1 may be copulative (you and me), disjunctive (you or me), adversative (strict but just) and causative-consecutive (sentence and text level only).
Subordination (SR2) – syntagmatic relations of dependence. SR2 are established between the constituents of different linguistic rank. They are observed on the phrase and sentence level. Subordination may be of three different kinds – adverbial (to speak slowly), objective (to see a house) and attributive (a beautiful flower). Forms of subordination may also be different – agreement (this book – these books), government (help us), adjournment (the use of modifying particles just, only, even, etc.) and enclosure (the use of modal words and their equivalents really, after all, etc.).
Predication (SR3) – syntagmatic relations of interdependence. Predication may be of two kinds – primary (sentence level) and secondary (phrase level). Primary predication is observed between the subject and the predicate of the sentence while secondary predication is observed between non-finite forms of the verb and nominal elements within the sentence. Secondary predication serves the basis for gerundial, infinitive and participial word-groups (predicative complexes).