SEMINAR 11. THE PHRASE: GENERAL

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.

4. Ильиш Б. А. Строй современного английского языка: Теоретический курс: Учеб. пособие. / Б. А. Ильиш – М. –Л.: Просвещение, 1965. – С. 177-187.

Не нашли, что искали? Воспользуйтесь поиском: