Seminar 4. The Verb and Verbal Categories
Issues Discussed:
1. General characteristics of the verb as a part of speech (semantical, morphological, syntactic).
2. The classification of the English verb. Different principles used to distinguish verb cases as to:
a) stem types (morphological classification);
b) verb-form derivation (morphological classification);
c) implicit dependent meaning (two lexico-morphological classifications);
d) nature of predication (functional classification);
e) valent properties;
f) functional significance (functional-semantic classification);
g) combinability (syntagmatic classification).
3. Verb-building devices and their grammatical relevance.
4. The problem of the category of mood.
Recommended literature
1. Blokh M. Y. A Course in Theoretical English Grammar. / Марк Яковлевич Блох. − M. Высшая школа, 2000. – 381 p. . pp. 85-102, 185-203.
2. Ilyish B. A. The Structure of Modern English. − L., 1971. pp. 99-113.
3. Morokhovska E. J. Fundamentals of English Grammar (Theory and Practice) − K., 1993. pp. 69-71.
4. Rayevska N. M. Modern English Grammar. − Kyiv, 1976. pp. 37-42; 67-71.
Practical assignments:
Exercise 1. Give 7 examples of the use of tenses in transposition (non-tem poral use offenses) in Modern English.
Exercise 2. For each example below give a derived passive construction. Experiment possible variants. Comment on the way the same ideas are rendered into Ukrainian:
1. Jin hired a taxi for her aunt. 2. Only yesterday I received a copy of morning star for my group. 3. He wrote a letter to the place called hermitage. 4. Nobody spoke about this accident. 5. They just saw you climb into a rhcrry tree. 6. They should have finished this experiment by Monday. 7. She knotted her hair. 8. They looked at her with admiration. 9. Theyspoke much about this incident on the town. 10. Evidently, nobody had slept in I lie bed that night.
Exercise 3. Give 4 examples of the use of moods in transposition in Modern Engl ish (and, if possible, in Ukrainian).
Exercise 4. Examine the following sentences and point out the verb-forms which are characterized by neutralization of the opposition "common/continu ous":
1.It is evening again. The sea runs very high. It frets, sweeps up and over, hugs, leaps upon the rocks. Every moment the light changes. Even as I write it is no longer hard. Some small white clouds top the mountain like tossed-up smoke. And now a purple colour, very menacing and awful, is pulling over the sky. (K. Mansfield) 2. The clock is striking five and the last rays of the sun pour under the swinging blind. (K. Mansfield) 3. I was lolling Robinson at the bank today, I've been getting pains, and I'm sleeping badly. (G. Greene) 4. I am in the sitting room downstairs. The wind howls outside, but here it is so warm and pleasant. (K. Mansfield) 5. It is i dark, reluctant day. The fire makes a noise like a flag. (K. Mansfield) 6. Mrs Giott scolded and exclaimed at the men for being in such a hurry. (K. Prichard) 7. While he looked at it she watched his face as though her life depended upon its expression. (E. Voinich)
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