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PARTS OF SPEECH
Васильева Е.В., БГУ, г. Улан-Удэ
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1. The notion of parts of speech and the criteria for
their discrimination.
2. The main notional parts of speech and their characteristics.
3. The main functional parts of speech and their characteristics.
4. Subcategorization of the parts of speech.
5. Parts of speech migration.
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1. The notion of parts of speech
Study the following words
and try to classify them. Argue the basis of your classification.
Book, swim, beautiful, girl, one, classify, third, nicely, in, tables, write, came, under.
Parts of speech are grammatically relevant classes of words (or lexemes) obtaining more or less common features.
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1. Criteria for parts of speech discrimination
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SEMANTIC
The categorial (lexico-grammatical) meaning of
the part of speech.
It means the generalized meaning characteristic to all the words in a given part of speech.
Example:
Noun - substance, thingness.
Verb - action, process, etc.
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FORMAL
A) Specific forms of derivation.
Some typical stem-building and lexico- grammatical affixes.
Examples:
Noun affixes: -tion, -ship, -dom, -ism, etc.
B) Morphological grammar categories. Thus, the paradigm of a word shows to what part of speech it belongs.
Examples:
Noun - case, number.
Verb - tense, aspect, voice, person, etc.
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ATTENTION!
Compare the following paradigms:
Conclusion: NOT ALL the lexemes of apart pf
speech have the same paradigm
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FUNCTIONAL
A) Typical combinability. Left-hand and
right-hand connections. (Combinability is the power of a class of words to form combinations of definite patterns with words of certain classes irrespective of their lexical or grammatical meanings)
Art+Noun (a/the book); Prep +Noun (to/from/at school);
B) Syntactical functions in the sentence.
Examples:
Noun – Subject, Predicative, Object…
Verb - Predicate
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1. The notion of parts of speech
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FEATURES of the functional parts
of speech
They have very general and comparatively weak lexical meanings.
They obtain obligatory unilateral (articles, particles) or bilateral combinability (prepositions, conjunctions).
They have the functions of linking (prepositions, conjunctions) or specifying (articles, particles) words.
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2. The main notional parts of speech and their characteristics.
The features
of the noun : 1) the categorial meaning of substance ("thingness"); 2) the changeable forms of number and case; the specific suffixal forms of derivation (prefixes in English do not discriminate parts of speech as such); 3) the substantive functions in the sentence (subject, object, substantival predicative); prepositional connections; modification by an adjective.
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The features
of the adjective: 1) the categorial meaning of property (qualitative and relative); 2) the forms of the degrees of comparison (for qualitative adjectives); the specific suffixal forms of derivation; 3) adjectival functions in the sentence (attribute to a noun, adjectival predicative).
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The features
of the numeral: 1) the categorial meaning of number (cardinal and ordinal); 2) the narrow set of simple numerals; the specific forms of composition for compound numerals; the specific suffixal forms of derivation for ordinal numerals; 3) the functions of numerical attribute and numerical substantive.
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The features
of the pronoun: 1) the categorial meaning of indication (deixis); 2) the narrow sets of various status with the corresponding formal properties of categorial changeability and word-building; 3) the substantival and adjectival functions for different sets.
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The features
of the verb: 1) the categorial meaning of process (presented in the two upper series of forms, respectively, as finite process and non-finite process); 2) the forms of the verbal categories of person, number, tense, aspect, voice, mood; the opposition of the finite and non-finite forms; 3) the function of the finite predicate for the finite verb; the mixed verbal — other than verbal functions for the non-finite verb.
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The features
of the adverb: 1) the categorial meaning of the secondary property, i.e. the property of process or another property; 2) the forms of the degrees of comparison for qualitative adverbs; the specific suffixal forms of derivation; 3) the functions of various adverbial modifiers.
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The article
expresses the specific limitation of the substantive functions.
The preposition expresses the dependencies and interdependences of substantive referents.
The conjunction expresses connections of phenomena.
The interjection, occupying a detached position in the sentence, is a signal of emotions.
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The particle
unites the functional words of specifying and limiting meaning. To this series, alongside of other specifying words, should be referred verbal postpositions as functional modifiers of verbs, etc.
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The modal
word, occupying in the sentence a detached position, expresses the attitude of the speaker to the reflected situation and its parts. Here belong the functional words of probability (probably, perhaps, etc.), of qualitative evaluation (fortunately, unfortunately, luckily, etc.), and also of affirmation and negation.
Слайд 204. Subcategorization of the parts of speech.
Each part of speech is
further subdivided into subclasses on the basis of semantico-functional or formal features.
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NOUN subclasses:
Proper – common
Example:
Mary – person
Animate – inanimate
Example: Lion – field
Concrete – abstract
Example: coin - honesty
Countable – uncountable
Example: notebook - news
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VERB subclasses:
Finite – non-finite (fully
predicative – partially predicative)
Example: goes – to go, going, gone
Transitive – intransitive
Example: put, take – live, ache
Actional – statal
Example: play, ride – exist, suffer
Regular– irregular
Example: work – go, put
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ADJECTIVE subclasses:
Qualitative – relative
Example:
long, comfortable – deaf, wooden
Factive – evaluative
Example: tall, mental – kind, brave
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5. Parts of speech migration.
The stems of two or more lexemes
may belong to different parts of speech. Such words are called polyfunctional.
Examples: love – to love, doctor – to doctor, man – to man, home (n) – home (adv.)
This is a result of words migration. The lexemes have different paradigms:
Examples: doctor – doctors – doctor’s – doctors’ and to doctor, doctored, doctoring, etc.
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5. Parts of speech migration.
The new parts of speech are built
by conversion in such examples. Polyfunctional words are present both in the notional and semi-notional parts of speech.
Examples: He arrived before seven (preposition). I have never seen you before (adverb). Wash your hands before you have dinner (subordinating conjunction).