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Plan
1. The basic units of syntax: the phrase and the sentence. Different features of the phrase and of the sentence. The phrase in the hierarchy of linguistic units.
2. Collocation and colligation.
3. The traditional classification of phrases (according to the part-of-speech division).
4. The problem of interpretation of predicative phrases.
5. Agreement and government as two main types of syntactic relations.
6. Adjoinment and enclosure as special means of expressing syntactic relations.
7. Structural Grammar on classification of phrases.
Questions and Tasks:
1. Name the basic units of syntax.
2. Give the definition of each unit and their differential features.
3. Comment on the difference between collocation and colligation.
4. What makes the sentence the main object of syntax?
5. What is predication?
6. Give the strong points of the traditional classification of phrases.
7. What is the difference between agreement and government?
8. What principles is the nominative classification of phrases based on?
9. What syntactic relations of the phrase constituents does enclosure imply?
10. What type of syntagma is adjoinment typical of?
References:
1. Бархударов Л. С. Структура простого предложения современного английского языка. / Л. С. Бархударов. – М.: Высш. шк., 1966. – С. 30-140.
2. Блох М. Я. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка: Учеб. пособие – 4-е изд., испр. / М. Я. Блох. – М.: Высш. шк., 2003. – С. 247-285.
3. Блох М. Я. Практикум по теоретической грамматике английского языка: Учеб. пособие / М. Я. Блох, Т. Н. Семенова, С. В. Тимофеева. – М.: Высш. шк., 2004. – С. 245-266.
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4. Ильиш Б. А. Строй современного английского языка: Теоретический курс: Учеб. пособие. / Б. А. Ильиш – М. –Л.: Просвещение, 1965. – С. 177-187.
SEMINAR 12. PART I. THE SIMPLE SENTENCE: The Traditional Grammar about
The Structural Classification of a Simple Sentence
Plan
1. The notion of the sentence. The sentence as a linguistic unit. The two aspects of the sentence. Predication and modality.
2. Structural classification of simple sentences:
a) one-member and two-member sentences; different approaches to one-member sentences; the notion of a predicative line.
b) complete and elliptical sentences; representation and substitution; the problem of differentiation of one-member and elliptical sentences.
c) an elementary sentence and an extended sentence.
3. The traditional scheme of sentence parsing: the main and secondary parts of the sentence.
Questions and Tasks:
- What do the structural classifications of simple sentences reveal?
- What is the difference between the one-member and two-member sentences?
- What makes the basis for identifying the elliptical sentences?
- What sentence parts are identified?
- Speak about the drawbacks of the traditional parsing.
- What criteria is the description of sentence parts based on?
