III. CHECK YOURSELF
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 486.
READING MATERIAL
1. Blokh M.Y. A Course in Theoretical English Grammar. – M., 2000. – P. 49 –50; 197 – 213.
2. Ilyish B. The Structure of Modern English. – L., 1971. – P. 58 – 65.
3. Khaimovich B.S., Rogovskaya B.I. A Course in English Grammar. – М., 1967. – P. 45 – 48; 75 – 86.
4. Прокопчук Г.С. Курс лекций по теоретической грамматике английского языка: Учеб. пособие для 4 курса. – Мн., 1997. – С. 11 – 14.
5. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка. Задания и упражнения / Г.С. Прокопчук, Н.П. Петрашкевич, Н.Ф. Смирнова, Т.С. Харитонова: Методическое пособие для студентов 4 курса факультета английского языка. – Мн., 1993. – C. 15 – 18.
SUPPLEMENTARY READING
1. Смирницкий А.И. Морфология английского языка. – М., 1959. – C. 156 – 159.
2. Hansen E., Nielsen H.F. Irregularities in Modern English. – Odense University Press, 1986. – P. 61 – 73.
1. Comment on the terms: adjective, qualitative, relative, evaluative, specificative, substantivized, gradable, predicative, category of state (stative word / stative / adlink), conversion, degrees of comparison, positive, comparative, superlative, direct comparison, reverse comparison, non-comparables.
2. What are the reasons to say that adjectives do not possess a full nominative value?
3. What is the role of the word one in combinations of the type Adj + one?
4. What is the drawback of the traditional classification of adjectives into qualitative and relative? What other grammatical classifications can be introduced?
5. Give examples of the so-called non-comparables. Can you prove the statement that "the morphological category of comparison (comparison degrees) is potentially represented in the whole class of adjectives and is constitutive for it" [2, 201]?
6. State the meanings of the three forms of comparison.
7. What problems does a linguist face considering degrees of comparison of adjectives?
8. What are the reasons to exclude the positive form from the paradigm of comparison? Can you give arguments in favour of a three-member opposition of comparison in the English adjective?
9. What forms of comparison are wider in application: synthetic or analytical? Why?
10. Can analytical forms of comparison in English be considered "semantically idiomatic"?
11. What is called "reverse comparison"? What type of comparison is of greater importance: "direct" or "reverse"? Why?
12. What are the reasons for singling out such part of speech as "adlink" (predicative adjective / stative / category of state / stative word)?
13. Give examples of statives denoting:
– psychic state of a person;
– physical state of a person;
– physical state of an object;
– the state of an object in space.
14. What means serve to express degrees of comparison in statives?
15. What part-of-speech characteristics can be found in substantivized adjectives? What is full and partial substantivization?
16. Why are substantivized adjectives often called "adjectivids"?
17. In what way is the first component of the "stone wall" construction treated?
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