Теоретична граматика

Seminar №8
Practical assignment


1. Comment on the following terms:
verb, verbal categories, finite verbs, non-finite verbs (verbids), standard verb, non- standard verb, subjective verb, objective verb, transitive verb, intransitive verb, complementive / uncomplementive verbs, terminative verb, non-terminative verb, notional verbs, form verbs, modal verbs, actional verbs, statal verbs, time, tense, simple tenses/ composite tenses, relative tenses, simultaneity, anteriority (priority), posteriority, voice category, mood category, modality, epistemic modality, root modality.
2. 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.


3. Identify the verb-forms in the following senten­ces. Comment on the cases of their usage in transposition (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. If you want to know what I thought, it was that you were just being rather stupid (Priestley).
5. Where have you been? - I was seeing Granger home (Greene).
6. I was cut off from the kind of people I'd always known, my family, my friends, everybody (Osborne).
7. Well, you'll be wanting more definite information than that, won't you? (Amis).
8. 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).