Теоретична граматика

Practical assignments
(SEMINAR. Syntax. Word-group)
Exercise 1. Comment on the following terms:
syntax, syntactic unit, syntactic relations, syntactic connections, syntactic function, syntactic position, syntactic construction (complex), word combination, phrase, hypotactics (subordination), paratactics (coordination), predi­cation, noun phrase, verb phrase, pronominal phrase, head, adjunct, headed phrases, non-headed phrases, syndetic phrases, extended phrases, asyndetic phrases, prepositional phrases.


Exercise 2. Comment on the table of syntagmatic relations. Supply examples for the following notions.

Relations		Connections
types	kinds	forms	means
SR 1 paratactics (independence)	symmetric asymmetric homogeneous elements	copulative disjunctive adversative causative-con­secutive	syndetic asyndetic
SR 2 hypotectics (dependence)	adverbial objective attributive	agreement government adjoinment enclosure	prepositions word-order
SR 3 predication (interdepen­dence)	primary secondary	subject-predicate agreement	inflexions word-order

Exercise 3. Define relations and syntactic connections within the following word-groups:
a blue pond; to open the door; to write and to read; the voice of the teacher; loud but pleasant; to go quickly; to ask him; ladies and gentlemen; very interesting; these plates; she asked; for him to go; students, teachers.


Exercise 4. Pick up the subordinate word-groups from the following sentences. Characterize them according to the morphological expression of their head element.
1. The light in the room was beginning to have a very odd quality (O’Connor). 2. A full chair choir intoned responses to players with reassuring volume (Hailey). 3. This rather dirty, smug, but oddly compelling photographer had the ability to make her feel about six inches high(Durbridge). 4. Perfoid stood looking at her through the hage of cigarette smoke (Durbridge). 5. He had a large red face, a stiff brush of grey hair and the good eyes, blue and clear, focused sharply on Asbury (O’Connor).


Exercise 5. Supply the following patterns with the examples of nominal phrases. Comment on the positions of nominal adjuncts before and after the N-head: