Theoretical english grammar assessment

Chapter 32.
The Systematic structure of language.

1. Explain the scope of the meaning denoted by the term “conceptualization”?

2. What is language for?
3. What can you tell about the essence of the encoding, transmitting, symbolic and other functions of the language?
4. What levels of representation do you know?
5. What is the meaning of the term “projected reality”?
6. How is the interactive function of the language realized?
7. How is the language structured?
8. What does the systematic structure of thought reflect?
9. What do the conceptual domains related in the language contain and how do they organize ideas and experiences?
10. Why is Linguistics considered to be one of the cognitive sciences?


Compare the two definitions and try to reveal similarity
and differences between them.


1. Adjunct:
- a subordinate component of a phrase, that usually precedes a noun phrase.
- adverbials may be classified as adjuncts which is part of the basic structure of a clause or sentence in which it occurs and modifies the verb.
2. Agreement:
- a way of connection implying / involving concord of grammatical forms in a subordinate word – group as in these countries, those mountains
- an abstract feature that shows whether singular or plural is required, e.g.:
The guards (plural stand) near the gate. The guard (singular stand) near the gate.
3. Government:
- a way of connection when the head of a subordinate word – group requires of its adjunct to assume an appropriate grammatical forms (usually a case - form) or to be used with definite preposition: e.g. to see him (case government), to look at a man (prepositional government)
- a type of grammatical relationship between two or more elements in a sentence, in which choice of one element causes the selection of a particular form of another element. It is used to the relationship between verbs and nouns or between prepositions and nouns, e.g.
She will give them to me.
In this example the verb “to give” governs the pronoun “them”.