Problems for discussion
1. Whose conceptions on grammatical category do you know?
2. What are the main requirements for the grammatical category?
3. What types of grammatical categories do you know?
4. The theory of oppositions.
5. What types of oppositions do you know?
6. What is the oppositional reduction?
7. What do you understand by "grammatical structure of a language"?
8. What is the difference between synthetic and analytical languages?
9. What are the basic grammatical means of the English language?
10. Compare the grammatical structure of English with the grammatical structure of Russian.
Key terms: category, grammatical category, individual grammatical form (meaning), categorial grammatical meaning, paradigmatic opposition, common features, differential features, binary and supra-binary oppositions, privative (equipollent, gradual) oppositions, formal mark (marker), strong (marked, positive) member of the opposition, weak (unmarked, negative) member of the opposition, reduction of the opposition (transposition, neutralization), synthetical forms, outer inflection, inner inflection, suppletive forms (suppletivity), analytical forms, grammatical idiomatism, immanent category, reflective category, transgressive category, closed category, constant feature category, variable feature category
I. Define the types of the oppositions and interpret the categorial properties of their members in privative terms.
MODEL: play – played.
The words "play - played" make up a binary privative opposition. The strong member is "played"'; its differential feature is the denotation of a past action. The marker of this categorial meaning is the grammatical suffix "-ed".
a. k — g, m — w, s — n, a: — a — i:
b. he - she, he - they, he - it, we - they;
c. intelligent - more intelligent − the most intelligent;
d. I understand - I am understood;
e. tooth - teeth;
f. am - is;
g. he listens - he is listening;
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