SEMINAR 1.

Communicative Registers. Functional Typology of Utterances.

Task 1.

Read the list of different Grammars below and say which of the approaches dominated in studying grammar at University.

Find out the destination, subject, object, methods, spheres of application, and the names of prominent linguists who developed each trend. Name at least one textbook representing each approach to Grammar.

1. Universal Grammar

2. Descriptive Grammar

3. Functional Grammar

4. Generative Grammar

5. Cognitive Grammar

6. Comparative Grammar

7. Transformational Case Grammar

8. Pedagogical Grammar

9. Content-based Grammar

10. Context-free Grammar

11. Academic Grammar

12. ATN (Augmented Transition Network) Grammar

Task 2.

Draw the scheme of a syntactical field of a sentence in your exercise-books and fill it in with your examples.

Find examples to the scheme of a syntactical field of a sentence with typical meanings “the subject and its state”, “the subject and its quality”, “the subject and its quantity”, “the subject and his qualification”.

Task 3.

Characterize the action (common / typical / specific; observable / non-observable, etc.), time (current / usual), verb (action / non-action, perfective / non-perfective etc.), register.

Compare the two sentences: 1. The teacher is giving a lesson at the moment.

2. The teacher gives a lesson every day.

Task 4.

What is the difference between the current meaning of the action and the usual one?

Think how the verb can render the difference between the single and the repeated action if the time and aspect are the same. Add words or word combinations that give the predicate the textual meaning of usuality.

· He treats it differently.

· She looks beautiful.

Which registers do the sentences belong to? Which communicative patterns of sentences do they represent?

Task 5.

A lot of interjections and set phrases serve as the language means of responsive utterances in different languages. Read the utterances in Ukrainian and find their English equivalents.

· Ой! Ну! Еге! Еге ж! Атож! А як же! Навряд! Фу! Ого!

· Годі! Давай! Дай ! Ну! Хай!

· Точно! Саме! Онде! Ген! Ото! Ба! ... ще й ..., ... мало не ..., ... це ..., ... то ..., ... ось ....

· Та ви що?! Ось тобі на! Ех ти! Куди тобі! Ще б пак! Не може бути! Будьте здорові! Ні за що!

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