- •Теоретична фонетика
- •2. The articulatory classification of English consonants.
- •3. English Word Stress: notion, types, functions.
- •4/ The Syllable. Types.
- •5. Prosodic system of The English language/intonation.
- •Theoretical Grammar
- •1.General characteristics of language as a semiotic communication system. Language functions. Language and speech.
- •2. Language as a structural system. Language levels.
- •3. Systemic relations in language. Syntagmatic relations. Paradigmatic relations.
- •4. Lexical and grammatical aspects of the word. Types of grammatical meanings. The notion of grammatical category. Types of oppositions.
- •5. The noun as a part of speech. Formal, semantic and functional properties of the noun.
- •6. The verb as a part of speech. Formal, semantic and functional properties of the verb.
- •7. General characteristics of syntax. Basic syntactic notions.
- •8. Definition and general characteristics of the word-group. The Noun phrase. The Verb phrase.
- •9. Structural and semantic characteristics of the sentence.
- •Історія мови
- •1. Periods in the history of English. Grimm’s Law. Verner’s Law.
- •Verner’s Law.
- •2. Old English Phonology, Morphology and Syntax.
- •3. Grammatical categories of the Noun in Old English, Middle English and New English periods.
- •4. Grammatical categories of the Verb in Old English, Middle English and New English periods.
- •Main historical events of Old English and Middle English periods and their linguistic consequences.
- •Лексикологія
- •1. Etymological structure of the English vocabulary. Native and borrowed words, types of borrowings.
- •2. Latin and French borrowings in Modern English, their periodization and recognition.
- •3. Types of word meaning in English. Polysemy and its sources.
- •4. Morphological structure of a word. Immediate constituents’ analysis.
- •5. Productive ways of English word-formation: affixation, shortening, conversion, compounding.
- •7. Systemic relations in the English vocabulary. Groups of words in the lexicon. Neologisms, archaisms and international words.
- •8. Synonymy and antonymy in English. Homonyms and their classifications.
- •9. English phraseology: definition, approaches and classifications.
- •Stylistics
- •1. Stylistic classification of the English vocabulary.
- •Vocabulary word-stock three layers:
- •1) Literary, 2) neutral, 3) colloquial.
- •2. The notion of style in the language. Notion of language expressive means and stylistic devices. Convergence of stylistic devices.
- •3. Phonetic expressive means and stylistic devices.
- •4. Syntactical stylistic devices; their structural, semantic and functional characteristics.
- •5. Metaphorical group of stylistic devices. Mechanism of metaphoric transfer of name. Types of metaphor.
- •Metonymical group. Syntactic and semantic difference between metonymy and metaphor.
- •1. Contiguity;
- •1. Likeness/similarity
3. Grammatical categories of the Noun in Old English, Middle English and New English periods.
Old English:
Category of gender: 3 (masculine, feminine, neuter)
Category of number: 2 (singular, plural)
Category of case: 4 (Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative)
Types of declension: strong, weak, root, minor.
Middle English:
Category of gender: -
Category of number: 2 (singular, plural)
Category of case: 2 (Nominative, Genitive)
Types of declension: strong, weak.
New English:
two numbers: singular and plural
two case forms: the common case and the genitive case
three genders: masculine, feminine, neuter
4. Grammatical categories of the Verb in Old English, Middle English and New English periods.
Old English:
Syntheticall
3 types: strong, weak, minor.
Categories:
- number: 2
- person: 3
- mood: indicative (real), subjunctive (desire, condition, obligation, doubt), imperative (order, request).
Tense: past, present.
Non-finite:
Indicative: case (Nominative, Dative)
Participle I:
- number: 2
- person: 3
- declension – like strong adjectives, active meaning, simultaneous.
Participle II:
- declension: 2
- gender: 3
Middle English:
Analitical
3 types: strong, weak, minor.
Categories:
- number: 2
- person: 3
- mood: indicative (real), subjunctive (desire, condition, obligation, doubt), imperative (order, request).
Tense: past, present., future (shall/will), Past Perfect (have to + Participle II), gerund.
Non-finite:
Indicative:
case: -
acquire “to”
Participle I:
- number: 2
- gender: -
- declension: -
- active meaning, expressive process.
Participle II:
- declension: -
- gender: -
New English:
Grammatical categories:
person: 1st, 2nd ,3rd
number: Singular, Plural
tense: present, past, future
aspect (вид): simple, progressive, perfect, perfect-progressive
voice (стан): active, passive
mood: indicative, Imperative, subjunctive
The Non-finite Forms of the Verb:
The Participle (Present - I, Past - II)
The Gerund
The Infinitive
Main historical events of Old English and Middle English periods and their linguistic consequences.
Linguistic consequences.
Main historical events of Old English and Middle English periods and their linguistic consequences.
Early 5th century.-First Germanic tribes arrive in England.
600 - Christianity introduced among Anglo-Saxons
876 - Three Danish kings attack Wessex
1066 - English becomes the language of the lower classes (peasants and slaves). Norman French becomes the language of the court and propertied classes.
1204 The English kings lose the duchy of Normandy to French kings. England is now the only home of the Norman English.
1205 First book in English appears since the conquest.
1337 Start of the Hundred Years' War between England and France.
1362 English becomes official language of the law courts. More and more authors are writing in English.
1380 The London dialect, for the first time, begins to be recognized as the "Standard", or variety of English taken as the norm, for all England.
1474 William Caxton brings a printing press to England from Germany. Publishes the first printed book in England.
the Scandinavian element in the London dialect and Standard English was brought about by the changing linguistic situation in England: the mixture of the dialects and the growing linguistic unification.
(Norman)The most important consequence of Norman domination in Britain is to be seen in the wide use of the French language in many spheres of life. For almost three hundred years French was the official language of administration: it was the language of the king’s court, the church, the army and others. The intellectual life, literature and education were in the hands of French-speaking people. For all that, England never stopped being an English-speaking country.