II. ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION

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1. Parts of language. Grammar as a part of language.

2. Grammar as a grammatical description of language: theoretical and practical. "Prescriptive" Grammar. Creativity of language. Linguistic competence.

3. The plane of content, the plane of expression. The systemic character of language.

4. Language and speech. A sign. Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations. Syntagma. Morphology and Syntax. Two approaches to the division of grammar into Morphology and Syntax.

5. Levels of the language.

READING MATERIAL

1. Blokh M.Y. A Course in Theoretical English Grammar. – M., 2000. – P. 6 – 17.

2. Ilyish B. The Structure of Modern English. – L., 1971. – P. 6 – 7; 9 – 10; 12 – 15.

3. Прокопчук Г.С. Курс лекций по теоретической грамматике английского языка: Учеб. пособие для 4 курса. Мн., 1997. – С. 3 – 4.

4. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка. Задания и упражнения / Г.С. Прокопчук, Н.П. Петрашкевич, Н.Ф. Смирнова, Т.С. Харитонова: Методическое пособие для студентов 4 курса факультета английского языка. – Мн., 1993. – С. 3.

SUPPLEMENTARY READING

1. Saussure F. de. Course in General Linguistics / Readings in the Theory of Grammar Ed. by Bornstein Diane D. – Winthrop Publishers, Inc., 1976. – P. 114 – 121.

2. Contemporary Linguistic Analysis / Ed. by O'Grady W., Dobrovolsky M. – Toronto, 1987. – P.1 – 12 .

3. Crystal D. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language: Cambridge University Press, 1988. – P. 58 – 70.

4. Блох М.Я. Теоретические основы грамматики. – М., 2000. – С. 41 – 48.

III. CHECK YOURSELF

1. Comment on the terms: language, phonological system, lexical system, grammatical system, practical grammar, theoretical grammar, plane of content, plane of expression, polysemy, homonymy, synonymy, speech, sign, syntagmatic relations, paradigmatic relations, syntagma, morphology, syntax, segmental, suprasegmental, signeme, corteme, phonemic, morphemic, lexemic, phrasemic, mononomination, polynomination, "minor syntax", "major syntax", denotative, denoteme, proposemic, proposeme, super-sentential, dictemic, dicteme, pragmatic, hierarchy.

2. According to F. de Saussure language has several characteristics. Read text 1 attentively. What are characteristics of speech?

3. Language is creative. Prove it: invent several names for new phenomena. What should you bear in mind developing new words?

4. Recognize the following utterances as acceptable or unacceptable in English:

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