The Parts
of Speech Problem. Grammatical Classes of Words
1. Блох М. Я. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка. (Ch.
IV, p. 37 – 48)
2.
Блох М. Я. Теоретические основы грамматики. (Ч. 2, гл. 1 – 3, с. 50 – 80)
3.
Хлебникова И. Б. Основы английской морфологии. (Ch. II, p. 18 – 27)
4. Ilyish B. The Structure of Modern
English. (Ch. II, p. 27 – 35)
Points to discuss
1. The classical approach to the
parts of speech problem.
2. The functional approach to the
parts of speech problem.
3. The distributional approach to
the parts of speech problem.
4. The complex approach to the parts
of speech problem.
Questions for discussion
1. Define parts of speech. Can the
term be considered a happy one?
2. Characterize the existing
approaches to the parts of speech problem.
3. What does the classical approach
consist in? What principle served as the basis of classification?
4. What is the essence of the
functional approach?
5. What principle was H. Sweet’s classification
based on?
6. How is O. Jespersen’s
classification different from the classification worked out by H. Sweet?
7. Describe the structural approach.
What methods did it rely on?
8. What principle lay in the basis
of Ch. Fries’s classification? What were the substitution patterns? How many
classes did Ch. Fries single out? How many groups of functional words?
9. What criteria are used by the
adherents of the complex approach? What parts of speech are traditionally
singled out?
10.What are the merits and demerits
of the traditional classification of words into parts of speech?
11.What is the difference between
notional classes and function words?
12.What results of the four
approaches to the parts of speech problem coincide and what results differ?
Practice Assignment
Decide
to what part of speech the underlined words may be assigned:
1. He is given sight only after
dusk, when he can witness his captors and saviours. (M. Ondaatje)
2. They told him that it was in an
old nunnery, taken over by the Germans, then converted into a hospital after
the Allies had laid siege to it. (M. Ondaatje)
3. Mason ceased talking, waiting
for the doctor to say something. (E. S. Gardner)
4. “They just want somebody
to track him down. And you’re the somebody.” (L. Thomas)
5. The smell of the dead is
the worst. (M. Ondaatje)
6. Each night she climbed into the
khaki ghostline of hammock she had taken from a dead soldier, someone
who had died under her care. (M. Ondaatje)
7. “Gerry, I didn’t know the real you.
I’m sorry if I was a beast to you.” (D. Robbins)
8. There was no justice for
men, for they were ever in the dark! (J. Galsworthy)
9. They walked down a corridor, dark,
smelly and sinister. (M. Ondaatje)
10.Mr. Bannock had a one-man office
and I did all of the typing. (E. S. Gardner)
11.Before, when it had been
cold, they had had to burn things. (M. Ondaatje)
12.He was out most evenings now,
usually returning a few hours before dawn. (M. Ondaatje)
13.His eyes took in the room before
they took her in, swept across it like a spray of radar. (M. Ondaatje)
14.Julian Bannock interrupted her by
shaking his head. (E. S. Gardner)
15.And she has seen, he knows, even
though now he is naked, the same man she photographed earlier in the
crowded party, for by accident he stands the same way now, half turned
in surprise at the light that reveals his body in the darkness. (M. Ondaatje)
16.As he repeatedly kicked the
twisted metal, Langdon recalled his earlier conversation with Sophie.
(D. Brown)
17.Virginia
18.I made it pretty clear
that there was to be no nonsense about it. (B. Shaw)
19.He was suddenly aware that she
had a good deal more than a pretty face and a good figure. (A. Hailey)
20.It was a huge bedroom with rose
tapestry, indirect lighting, a king-sized bed with a telephone beside
it, half a dozen comfortable chairs, an open door to a bathroom and another
door leading to the corridor. (E. S. Gardner)
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