Theoretical grammar

One of the most important subsystems in any language is...

Answer explanation

the system of parts of speech

Parts of speech are lexico-grammatical word-classes that bear a general abstract syntactical meaning, expressed in certain grammatical markers.

• True

• False

Verbs are subcategorized into

• -fully predicative/partially predicative

  - transitive/intransitive

  - actional/statal

  -factive/evaluative

• -fully predicative/partially predicative

  - transitive/intransitive

  - actional/statal

  -factive/evaluative

  -equivalent/gradual

• - transitive/intransitive

  - actional/statal

  -factive/evaluative

In modem linguistics PSp are discriminated on the basis of three criteria:

• • semantic,

  • morphological,

  • syntactic.

• • semantic,

  • formal,

  • functional.

Language is a huge, but (a)   system of signs.

Name, verb, participle, pronoun. article are (a)   parts of speech

The features of the pronouns are...

• The categorial meaning of indication

• The forms of the degrees of comparison

  The specific suffixal forms of derivation

• The substantival and adjectival

  functions for different sets

• The categorial meaning of number

• The narrow sets of various status with the corresponding formal properties of categorial

  changeability and word-building

  
  

One and the same part of speech may unite words representing various concepts

• True

• False

The .... units are characterized by the presence of all the features of their class.

.... units include words of the so-called mixed categorial semantics.

Answer explanation

central peripheral

A syntagmatic process which consists in the use of a word belonging to one part of speech in the syntactic function characteristic of another part of speech is .... transposition

• Morphological

• Syntagmatic

• Lexical

• Syntactic