Методические рекомендации к семинарам по теоретической грамматике английского языка. Тивьяева И.В. - 29 стр.

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Seminar 12

Constituent Structure of the Sentence. Syntactic Processes

Required Reading

1. Блох М. Я. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка. (Ch. XXIV,

p. 261 – 272)

2. Иванова И.П., Бурлакова В.В., Почепцов Г.Г. Теоретическая

грамматика современного английского языка. (3.2.1. – 3.2.2.8, с. 183 –

230)

3. Ilyish B. The Structure of Modern English. (Ch. XXVI – XXIX, p. 198 –

237)

Points to discuss

1. The traditional scheme of sentence parsing.

2. The main sentence parts: the subject and the predicate, their types.

3. The secondary sentence parts: attribute, object, adverbial modifier.

4. The structural scheme of the sentence. The elementary sentence.

5. Syntactic processes.

Questions for discussion

1. What criteria is the description of sentence parts based on? What principle

underlies the division of sentence parts into main and secondary?

2. Comment on the status of the subject and the predicate.

3. What types of predicates can be singled out?

4. List the existent classifications of the object.

5. Comment on the order of prepositive attributes.

6. What is the structural scheme of the sentence? What is the elementary

sentence?

7. Characterize the following syntactic processes: expansion, compression,

addition, specification, complication, contamination, development,

adjunction, inclusion, isolation, substitution, representation and ellipsis.

Give examples.