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: