1. Provide extended answers to the following questions:

1. What is the linguistic nature of syntagma?

2. Enumerate the most significant changes in the English language syntax.

2. Explain the following statement:

1. Language can be analyzed in two different aspects – the system of signs, i.e. language proper and the use of signs, i.e. speech proper.

2. Analytical tendencies involved changed the forms of syntactic con­nection, as a result, agreement and case-government gave way to adjoinment and enclosure which are marked not by case-inflections but by the word-order.

3. Match the parts of the statements to characterize the linguistic notions under consideration

1) It is evident that the reduction of the noun-paradigm did not cause its analytization and the morphology of the noun, its form-derivation and its word-building …

2) The elements of the "language" plane are constructs which are ideal, abstract and potential. They cannot be …..

3) The plane of content comprises the purely semantic ele­ments contained in language, while the plane of expression comprises the material (formal) units of language taken by themselves, apart from the meanings rendered by them …..

4) The process of analytization varies in forms from language to language. In English, for instance, the process is extremely intensive and it ….

5) The system of language includes, on the one hand, the body of material units—sounds, morphemes, words, word-groups; on the other hand, ….

A …. described in physical terms of concrete actual lingual phenomena such as sounds, word-forms and utterances.

B … comprises the material (formal) units of language taken by themselves, apart from the meanings rendered by them.

C …. remains synthetic in character.

D …. the regularities or "rules" of the use of these units.

E …. manifests deep changes in the grammatical structure of the language, in its morphology and in its syntax as well.