Theoretical grammar. Review

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Questions 1. Grammar as a branch of Linguistics. The basics of

Questions

1. Grammar as a branch of Linguistics. The basics of morphology.
2.

Parts of speech in English.
3. The noun.
4. The verb: the grammatical category of voice.
5. The verb: the grammatical category of mood.
6. The structure of the simple sentence.
7. Complex sentence.
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1. Grammar as a branch of Linguistics. The basics of morphology.

1. Grammar as a branch of Linguistics. The basics of morphology.

Three

basic components of the language: phonetic, lexical and grammatical systems.
Types of grammar.
Goals and objectives of Theoretical English Grammar.
The word and its content. Lexical, lexical-grammatical and grammatical meaning of the word.
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The notions of grammatical opposition and grammatical category. Syntagmatic and paradigmatic

The notions of grammatical opposition and grammatical category.
Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations

in the system of the language.
Morpheme: definition.
Types of morphological distribution.
Morphological analysis.
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2. Parts of speech in English. The notion of parts of

2. Parts of speech in English.

The notion of parts of speech.
Basic

approaches to distinguishing parts of speech:
three-criteria approach;
descriptive approach: 4 syntactic classes and 15 functional groups (Ch. Fries).
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3. The noun. Categorial meaning of the noun. Derivational paradigm of

3. The noun.

Categorial meaning of the noun.
Derivational paradigm of the noun.
Grammatical

paradigm of the noun.
Syntactic functions of the noun in the sentence.
The problem of gender in English morphology.
The problem of the number of cases in English.
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The notion of grammatical polysemy. The essence of number as a

The notion of grammatical polysemy.
The essence of number as a grammatical

category of the noun.
The notion of grammatical synonymy.
The problem of the article in English grammar.
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4. The verb: the grammatical category of voice. The grammatical category

4. The verb: the grammatical category of voice.

The grammatical category of

voice: definition.
The question of the number of voice forms and their types.
The category of voice in the light of the oppositional theory.
The place of the category of voice in the morphological system of the English verb.
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5. The verb: the grammatical category of mood. The category of

5. The verb: the grammatical category of mood.

The category of mood:

definition.
The question of the number if moods in Modern English.
Mood as the opposition of
- the indicative and the subjunctive;
- the indicative and the oblique
moods.
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The problem of the grammatical meaning and classification of modal verbs.

The problem of the grammatical meaning and classification of modal verbs.
Functional-semantic

category of modality and its components.
The notion of grammatical homonymy.
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6. The structure of the simple sentence. The structure of the

6. The structure of the simple sentence.

The structure of the sentence

as a sequence of consecutive elements – syntagmatically connected various parts of speech.
Parts of the sentence – subject, predicate, object, etc. – as constituents of the sentence model.
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The criteria for establishing parts of the sentence: types of syntactic

The criteria for establishing parts of the sentence: types of syntactic

relations with other parts of the sentence and types of syntactic connection.
Main and secondary parts of the sentence.
Main parts of the sentence and predicativity.
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Compulsory and optional parts of the sentence. The notion of syntactic minimum of the sentence.

Compulsory and optional parts of the sentence.
The notion of syntactic minimum

of the sentence.
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7. Complex Sentence. Complex sentence: definition. Derivational history of the complex

7. Complex Sentence.

Complex sentence: definition.
Derivational history of the complex sentence in

the light of transformational grammar.
Formal means of introducing subordinate clauses into the structure of the complex sentence: asyndeton, conjunctions and conjunctive pronouns and adverbs, relative pronouns and adverbs.