Методические рекомендации к семинарам по теоретической грамматике английского языка для студентов III курса заочного отделения. Тивьяева И.В. - 16 стр.

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Seminar 7

Constituent and Semantic Structure of the Sentence.

Actual Division of the Sentence

Reading

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

236 – 243)

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; 3.3.1. – 3.3.4., c. 238 – 250; 3.3.9., с. 256 – 260)

3. Ilyish B. The Structure of Modern English. (Ch. XXV, p. 191 – 197; Ch.

XXVI – XXIX, p. 198 – 237)

4. Quirk R., Greenbaum S. et al. A University Grammar of English. (14.1. –

14.36., p. 354 – 373)

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, list their types.

3. Characterize the secondary sentence parts and list their types.

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

sentence?

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

addition, specification, complication, contamination, development,

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

Give examples.

6. What is a semantic role? What is a semantic configuration? How are

semantic roles reflected in the meaning of the verb?

7. What are the main principles of actual division of the sentence?

8. What language means mark the theme of the sentence? What language

means are used to express the rheme of the sentence?