Теоретична граматика

Individual Work № 3


Linguistic dichotomies


Study the following questions:

1. 
   Dichotomy “language – speech” in the Saussure's theory of the language.
   
2. 
   Dichotomy “synchrony-diachrony” in grammatical studies.
   

Recommended literature:

1. 
   B. Ilyish. The Structure of Modern English, p. 6-7.
   
2. 
   M. Y. Blokh. A Course in Theoretical English Grammar, p.p. 11-13.
   

Themes for writing academic reports (essays):

1. 
   The Saussure’s contribution into the development of theory of linguistics.
   
2. 
   The antithesis of language and speech.
   

Individual Work № 4


Morphology. Word as the main nominative unit of the language.


Study the following questions:

1. 
   Word as the main nominative unit of the language, its main characteristics.
   
2. 
   The problem of notional and function words.
   

Recommended literature:

1. 
   B. Ilyish. The structure of modern English, p.p.34-35, 10-11.
   
2. 
   E. J. Morokhovskaya . Fundamentals of Theoretical English Grammar, p.p. 46-56.
   

Themes for writing academic reports (essays):

1. 
   Morphemic structure of the word.
   

Individual work № 5


Grammatical Category. Parts of Speech.


Study the following questions:

1. 
   Syntactico-distributional theory of parts of speech by Ch. Fries.
   
2. 
   Nature of grammatical categories (referential and significational categories).
   
3. 
   Problem of notional and functional parts of speech.
   

Recommended literature:

1. 
   L.L. Iofik, L. P. Chakhoyan. Readings in the Theory of English Grammar, p.p. 49-53.
   
2. 
   E. J. Morokhovskaya. Fundamentals of Theoretical English Grammar, p.p. 106-112.
   
3. 
   M.Y. Blokh. A Course in Theoretical English Grammar, p.p. 37-49.
   

Themes for writing academic reports (essays):

1. 
   Lexico-grammatical classes of words.