Seminar 1. THE Categorial Structure of the Word
Plan
1. The basic notions concerned with the analysis of the categorial structure of the word:
- grammatical category
- grammatical form
- grammatical function
- grammatical opposition
- grammatical paradigm
- grammatical meaning and means of its expression
2. The theory of oppositions, types of oppositions: oppositions in morphology (gradual, binary, equipollent, tertiary, etc.)
3. The oppositional reduction. Types of the oppositional reduction: neutralization and transposition.
4. Synthetical and analytical forms. The notion of suppletivity.
Questions and Tasks:
1. Name the basic notions concerned with the categorial status of the word.
2. Give the definition of the grammatical meaning and name the grammatical means of its expression.
3. Give the definition of a grammatical category.
4. Speak on the theory of oppositions in morphology.
5. Comment on the role of the Prague linguistic school in the development of systematic conception of the language.
6. What is oppositional reduction? Comment on neutralization and transposition.
7. Name two kinds of grammatical forms. Comment on the principle of identifying an analytical form.
8. What is suppletivity?
References:
1. Бархударов, Л.С. Очерки по морфологии современного английского языка / Л.С. Бархударов. – М. : Высшая школа, 1975. – С. 41-48, 67-70.
2. Блох, М.Я. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка : учеб. / М.Я Блох. – 4-е изд., испр. – М. : Высшая школа, 2003. – С. 30-41.
3. Блох, М.Я. Практикум по теоретической грамматике английского языка : учебное пособие / М.Я. Блох, Т.Н. Семенова, С.В. Тимофеева. – М. : Высшая школа, 2004. – С. 65-78.
4. Ильиш, Б.А. Строй современного английского языка: Теоретический курс : учебное пособие / Б.А. Ильиш. – М.-Л. : Просвещение, 1965. – С. 23-28.
5. Хаймович, Б.С. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка : учебное пособие / Б.С. Хаймович, Б.И. Роговская. – М. : Высшая школа, 1967. – С. 7-31.
6. Штелинг, Д.А. Грамматическая семантика и контекст. Фактор человека в языке / Д.А. Штелинг. – М. : МГИМО, ЧеРО, 1996. – С. 101-102.
Seminar 2. Parts of Speech
Plan
1. Parts of speech in the English Language. A short history. The traditional classification of words.
2. The problems of classifying words into word classes. An outline of the main difficulties in classifying words.
3. The syntactico-distributional classification of words.
4. The theory of three ranks (O. Jespersen).
5. Functional words and their properties in the light of
- the traditional classification of words
- the syntactico-distributional classification of words
- the mixed approach to the classification of words.
6. The modern approach to the problem of classifying words into parts of speech (the three-layer classification of words by M.Y. Bloch).
Questions and Tasks:
1. Disclose the meaning of the term ‘part of speech’.
2. What are the strong and the weak points of the traditional classification of words?
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the syntactico-distributional classification of words?
4. Speak on the main principles of the three-layer classification of words.
5. What does the whole of the lexicon consist of?
6. Speak on the notional parts of speech.
7. Comment on the so-called ‘lexical paradigm of nomination’ and the role of suppletivity in it.
8. Comment on the functions of the words that belong to the so-called ‘second’ and ‘third’ layers.
References:
1. Бархударов, Л.С. Очерки по морфологии современного английского языка / Л.С. Бархударов. – М. : Высшая школа, 1975. – С. 49-67.
2. Блох, М.Я. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка : учебник / М.Я. Блох. – 4-е изд., испр. – М. : Высшая школа, 2003. – С. 42-58.
3. Блох, М.Я. Практикум по теоретической грамматике английского языка : учебное пособие / М.Я Блох, Т.Н. Семенова, С.В. Тимофеева. – М.: Высшая школа, 2004. – С. 79-108.
4. Гуревич, В.В. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка / В.В. Гуревич. – М.: МПГУ, 2001. – С. 21-25.
5. Иванова, И.П.,. Теоретическая грамматика современного английского языка : учеб. / И.П. Иванова, В.В Бурлакова, Г.Г. Почепцов. – М., 1981. – С. 14-20, 40-46, 91-96.