Topics for Self-Testing and Individual Preparation

1. The dominant morphological and syntactic features distinguishing the structural type of present-day English from the structural type of present-day Ukrainian.

2. The morpheme as a typological constant in the contrasted lan guages. Quantitative and qualitative correlation of affixal mor phemes in English vs. Ukrainian.

3. Types of inflexional morphemes in the contrasted languages.

4. The problem of "Word classes" vs. the parts of speech in English and Ukrainian.

5. Isomorphism and allomorphism in the quantitative representation of the morphological categories and means of their expression in the nominals of the contrasted languages.

6. Typological characteristics of the noun (classes, morphological categories, functions of the noun in the contrasted languages).

7. Singularia and pluralia tantum nouns and expression of quantity (or number) in the contrasted languages.

8. Isomorphism and allomorphism in the means of expressing defi niteness and indefiniteness in the contrasted languages.

9. Morphological/structural, categorial, functional and other isomor phic and allomorphic features of different classes of adjectives in the contrasted languages.

10.The pronoun. Classes of pronouns. Isomorphic and allomorphic features of English vs. Ukrainian pronouns.

11.The numeral. Classes of numerals and their isomorphic/allomor phic features in the contrasted languages.

12.The verb. Isomorphism and allomorphism in the classes of verbs. Morphological categories of person, number, tense, voice, aspect, mood and their realisation in the contrasted languages.

13. Isomorphism and allomorphism in the system of verbals of the

contrasted languages. 14. Typological characteristics of different classes of adverbs and their

structural peculiarities. The origin of some adverbs in English and

Ukrainian.

15.Typological characteristics of English vs. Ukrainian statives and their combinability.

16.Typological characteristics of the functional parts of speech in the contrasted languages:

 

a) semantic groups of modal words and modal expressions in En glish and Ukrainian;

b) isomorphism and allomorphism in the meaning, structure and functioning of prepositions in the contrasted languages;

c) the conjunction. Paradigmatic classes of conjunctions and their morphological structure in English and Ukrainian;

d) isomorphic and allomorphic features of different classes of par ticles in the contrasted languages;

e) typological characteristics of interjections/emotives in the con trasted languages.