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Additional tasks
1.The problem of the moment of speech in modern Linguistics.
Recommended reading
Comrie B. Tense. - Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. press, 1985.
2. Deixis representation in the category of tense.
Recommended reading
Klein W. Tenses as deictic categories// Essays on Deixis/ G. Rauh
(ed.). - Tübingen: Narr, 1983. - P. 229-245.
3. The correlation between lexical and grammatical means of time
rendering.
Recommended reading
Huddleston R.D. Some observations on tense and deixis in English//
Language. Journal of the linguistic Society of America/ W.Bright. –
Baltimore: Waverly Press Inc., 1969. - Vol. 45. - № 4. - P. 777-807.
Practical tasks
1.Comment on the tenses and the starting point:
1. Back in 15 minutes (a notice on the office door).
2. You are now leaving the State of Alabama (the signpost on
the highway).
3. When the sun is in the tropic of Cancer the longest day in the
Northern hemisphere occurs.
4. He died this year.
2. Study these sentences and say which of the alternatives given
is correct or more likely and explain its meaning.
1. The Taylors are going to/ will cruise around the Mediterranean to
celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary. 2. If you're sitting
comfortably, then I'm going to/ I'll begin the story. 3. Don't forget to
unplug the television before you will go/ go to bed. 4. The Scientists
are predicting that the disease will affect/ is going to affect over half
a million people over the next ten years. 5. You can borrow the car
provided that you will bring/ bring it back before 9 o'clock. 6.
Tomorrow the BBС television is devoting/ is gong to devote almost
the entire day to the programmes first broadcasted in the 1950s. 7.
Excuse me. I think I'm going to/ I will sneeze. 8. Kate really likes
children, I'm sure she'll / she's going to be happy to baby-sit for us. 9.
I’ll bring the post to you in your office when it arrives/ will
arrive.10. The fog is clearing /will clear by mid-morning m most
western parts of the country.
Assignment V
THE CATEGORY OF ASPECT
The problems for discussion
1. The aspective meaning of the verb.
2. The aspective category of development and the opposition it is
constituted by.
3. The possible reductions of the opposition.
4. The verbid representation of the category of development.
5. Do-forms interpretation.
6. The category of retrospective coordination.
7. Different views on the essence of the perfect forms in Modern
English.
8. The verbid representation of the category of retrospective
coordination.
Recommended reading:
1. Blokh M.Y. A Course in Theoretical English Grammar.- M:
Vysshaya Shkola, 2000, Ch. XV.
2. Ilyish B.A. The Structure of modern English. – L.: Prosveschenie,
1971, Ch. VIII, X.
3. Иванова Т.П., Бурлакова В.В., Почепцов Г.Г. Теоретическая
грамматика современного английского языка. – М: Высш. Шк. ,
1981, С. 57-65.
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