Lecture 1. Introduction: Grammar: General Notions

Lecture 1.

Introduction: Grammar: General Notions

The aim of theoretical grammar.

Language (a means of forming and storing ideas as reflections of reality and exchanging them in the process of human intercourse) incorporates three… 1) the phonological system, 2) the lexical system,

Grammar and Usage

In earlier periods of the development of linguistic knowledge, grammatical scholars believed that the only purpose of grammar was to give strict… To refer to some of the numerous examples of this kind, let us consider the…  

Grammar in the systemic conception of language. Systemic relations in language. Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Relations.

The nature of grammar as a constituent part of language is better understood in the light of discriminating the two planes of language, namely, the… The plane of content comprises the purely semantic elements contained in… The plane of expression comprises the material (formal) units of language taken by themselves, apart from the meanings…

General characteristics of linguistic units.

Language is regarded as a system of elements (signs, units) such as sounds, words, etc. These elements have no value without each other, they depend… Units of language are divided into: 1) segmental (phonemes, which form phonemic strings of various status – syllables, morphemes, words, etc.)

Seminar 1. Grammar: General Notions

  1) Be ready to define the following terms: