- •I semester
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- •Practical assignment
- •Seminar 2 Linguistic Dichotomies and their role in the revealing of language nature
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- •Seminar 3 Types of systemic relations in the language
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- •Seminar 3 Practical assignments
- •Seminar 4 Morphology as a Part of Grammar
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- •Seminar №4 Practical assignment
- •1.Comment on the following terms:
- •2. Do the morphemic analysis of the following words:
- •3. Write down the words in groups according to the nature of the "s" morpheme and the meaning it conveys
- •Seminar 5 Grammatical meaning and grammatical category
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- •Seminar 5 Practical assignment
- •Written tasks.
- •Seminar 6 Parts of speech.
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- •Seminar №6 Practical assignment
- •2. Decide to what part of speech the words underlined may be assigned. Pose arguments.
- •3. Classify the following words into groups on the basis of their
- •Seminar 7 Grammatical Nature of English Noun
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- •Seminar №7 Practical assignment
- •3. Suggest names for the following genitives:
- •4. State the difference in meaning of the following word combinations:
- •Seminar 8 Grammatical Nature of English Verb Realization of Verbal Categories
- •Recommended literature:
- •Seminar №8 Practical assignment
- •4. Account for the indication of time in:
- •Written tasks.
- •1. Read an extract from o. Wild’s “The Picture of Dorian Grey” and comment on the grammatical status of “- ing “ forms in the text.
- •Explain the use of Tense forms in the following extract аnd its Russian translation:
- •II semester
- •Seminar 1 Syntax as a Part of Grammatical Studies of the Language. Syntax of the Word Group
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- •Seminar 2 Syntax of the Simple Sentence.
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- •Sentence Practical assignments
- •Seminar 3 Composite sentence. Text.
- •Recommended literature
- •Seminar 4 Functional Study of the Language. Actual sentence division.
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- •Find thematic and rhematic sentences within each paragraph.
- •Comment on the functional logical perspective of the discourse. Yearning, Earning, Learning
- •Problems in Pronunciation
- •Seminar 5 Pragmatic studies in linguistics.
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- •Seminar Pragmatics
- •Seminar 6 Discourse analysis. Main problems of Psycholinguistics.
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- •1. Methods of linguistic analysis.
- •Individual Work № 2 Language units. Syntagmatics and paradigmatics.
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- •Individual Work № 3 Linguistic dichotomies
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- •Individual Work № 4 Morphology. Word as the main nominative unit of the language.
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- •Individual work № 5 Grammatical Category. Parts of Speech.
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- •Individual Work № 6 English Noun. Realization of Noun categories.
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- •Individual Work № 9 Syntax of the Composite Sentence. Syntax of the Text.
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- •Individual Work № 10 Communicative Linguistics. Pragmatics.
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- •Банк контрольно-тестових завдань
- •Контрольна робота з теоретичної граматики англійської мови (методичні рекомендації до виконання)
- •Variant 2
- •Variant 3
- •1. Methods of linguistic analysis.
- •Individual Work № 2 Development of English Grammatical Theory
- •M.Y. Blokh. A Course in Theoretical Grammar. - m.: Высшая школа -2003. – 423 p.
- •M.Y. Blokh., t.N.Semionova, s.V. Timofeyeva. Theoretical English Grammar. Seminars. - m.: Высшая школа -2003. – 471 p.
- •Alexeyeva Iryna. Theoretical Grammar Course of Modern English. – Vinnytsya: Nova Knyha. – 2007. – 328 p.
- •Individual Work № 3 Grammatical Classes of Words
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- •Individual Work № 4 English Verbids & Auxiliaries
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- •Individual Work № 5 English Modal Verbs
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- •Individual Work № 8 Linguistics of the text
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- •I saw him come.
- •He came.
- •N 1subj. – v1 – n2obj. – v2infin.
Variant 2
Exercise 1. Characterize the morphological level of language according to the following plan: a) the morpheme, its definition and classification, allomorphs; give your own examples to illustrate the point) b) the word, its definition; morphological structure; word-forms.
Exercise 2. Define and characterize different types of paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations. Write out from your home-reading book examples to illustrate different types of paradigmatic (semantic, formal, functional) and syntagmatic relations (paratactic (independent), hypotactic (dependent), predicative( interdependent:).
Exercise 3. Analyse the following oppositions and answer the following questions:
Deer → deer; beautiful→ more beautiful; cut→ cut; teach→ taught; less→ least; wait → has been waiting; translated→ had been translated
a) which oppositions render the grammatical meaning implicitly and which explicitly?;
b) which oppositions are formed analytically and which suppletivelly?;
c) which grammatical categories are realized in the oppositions?
Exercise 4. Define the meanings of ‘s in the following examples:
the government's decision; his brother's arrival, a day's wait;; a mile's distance; the hospital's pathology department; my sister's room; the morning's news.
Exercise 5. Analyse the words below and answer the following questions: a) which of the words have no singular or no plural opposites?; b) which words contain "s" as a part of the stem?
goods, police, mumps, deer, physics, sheep, advice, wonders, informations, news, wonders, readers.
Exercise 6. Collect from your home-reading book 8 - 10 sentences with the Perfect forms of terminative and non-terminative verbs. Comment on the shift of meanings they render.
Exercise 7. Comment on the transitivity and intransitivity of the verbs below. Give examples of their use.
to read to teach to run to walk to serve to smile
to help to live to open
Test paper in Theoretical English Grammar
Variant 3
Exercise 1. Characterize the verb as a part of speech according to the following plan: a) the verb semantics as the basis of general implicit lexico-grammatical meaning; b) the morphological properties of the verb; types of word-building and form-derivation; c) the syntactic role of the verb, its valency and combinability.
Give examples to illustrate your answers.
Exercise 2... Analyse the morphological structure of the following words: reproductiveness, writers, downstairs, oak-tree
Exercise 3. Define and characterize different types of morphemes. Write out from your home-reading book examples to illustrate different types of morphemes: lexical, grammatical, lexico-grammatical, zero.
Exercise 4. Write down the words below in groups on the ground of:
a) similarity of general lexico-grammatical meaning;
b) similarity of implicit grammatical meaning;
c) similarity of explicit grammatical meaning.
despair, police, readers', water, industrial, go, letter, late, astir, pains, sand, went, informed, friendly, third, colours, sends, took, spectacles, gentlemen's, examines, deer, feet, interesting, oxen, eating, cats, feeling, meeting, asks, played, stood
Exercise 5. Identify the verb-forms in the following sentences. Decide whether the verb-form has its categorial meaning (at the level of language) or the meaning is shifted (contextual meaning at the level of speech).
1. And we meet at six o'clock tomorrow morning by the Pine Trees, and see how many Heffalumps we've got in our trap (Milne).
2. Dave is joining the International Brigade. He's leaving for Spain tomorrow morning (Weaker).
3. I miss her very much, almost every minute of the day think of her, or think that I'm hearing her (O'Brien).
4. My dear Mother, if anything I am understanding the case (Durrell).
5. If you want to know what I thought, it was that you were just being rather stupid (Priestley).
6. Where have you been? - I was seeing Granger home (Greene).
7. I was cut off from the kind of people I'd always known, my family, my friends, everybody (Osborne).
8. Well, you'l be wanting more definite information than that, won't you? (Amis).
9. It was all gone} and he was forty-three and his wife had gone back to Linnean Street, Cambridge, Mass., and was leading the life she liked to lead (Hemingway).
Ехегсise 6. Define the meanings of the "s”-morpheme in the following words:
news, outskirts, physics, measles, takes, scissors, Linguistics, shorts, translates, students, books, trousers.
Kременецький обласний гуманітарно-педагогічний інститут імені Тараса Шевченка
Теоретична граматика
питання для самостійного опрацювання
(для спеціальності 6.010100. Педагогіка і методика середньої освіти. Мова та література (англійська))
Викладач:
к.філол.н. Воронцова Н.Г.
Kременець 2007
Individual Work № 1
Theoretical Grammar: Problems of linguistic analysis.
Study the following questions: