III. CHECK YOURSELF
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SUPPLEMENTARY READING
READING MATERIAL
1. Blokh M.Y. A Course in Theoretical English Grammar. – M., 2000. – P. 37 – 48.
2. Ilyish B. The Structure of Modern English. – L., 1971. – P. 27 – 35.
3. Khaimovich B.S., Rogovskaya B.I. A Course in English Grammar. – М., 1967. – С. 32 – 51.
4. Прокопчук Г.С. Курс лекций по теоретической грамматике английского языка: Учеб. пособие для 4 курса. Мн., 1997. – С. 11 – 14.
5. 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. – C. 7 – 10.
1. Palmer F. Grammar. – Penguin books, 1971. – P. 58 – 70.
1. Comment on the terms: parts of speech, notional part of speech, functional / formal part of speech, deictic, lexico-grammatical meaning, oblique grammatical meaning, combinability, form, function, bilateral.
2. What part of speech do the words length, breadth, thickness, and duration in the following example belong to?
e. g. "Clearly," the Time Traveller proceeded, "any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and – Duration" (H.G. Wells, The Time Machine).
Can you prove relative importance of the general criteria of discrimination of parts of speech for English? Can all the three criteria: semantic, morphological, syntactic – be applied to all classes of words?
3. What difficulties do linguists face when they attempt to classify words of the language into parts of speech? Make use of text 1.
4. Can you trace differences and similarities in different classifications of parts of speech?
5. A.I. Smirnitsky calls parts of speech lexico-grammatical categories. Can you justify this name? Is there any tie between the concrete lexical meaning of a word and its categorical belonging?
6. Traditionally parts of speech are defined as big classes of words. Give another definition. What is your attitude to the term part of speech? Can you justify your approval or disapproval of it?
7. What classes of words are open / closed?
8. What is your attitude to the opinion that the difference between notional and formal words lies in the following: notional words denote things, actions and some other extralinguistic phenomena while formal words do not have any direct indications of the extralinguistic; such words only show relations between notional words?
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