Name the type of phrasalization in the sentences below.

1) At the mention of her children, she began to cry (Brown). complete nominalization

2) He was standing behind me - a haunted look in his eyes (Brown). complete nominalization

3) She heard a bird singing. partial nominalization

4) Thank you for coming. partial nominalization

5) Having traveled seven hundred miles, he was tired. partial nominalization

 

А) Take any 2 elementary sentences and transform them into more complex syntactic constructions, name the transformation steps.                      

Model: He noticed a star; A star was falling. – (He noticed a star. The star was falling.) – A star was falling and he noticed it. - He noticed a star, which was failing. - He noti­ced a star falling. (The star was noticed falling.) - He no­ticed the falling of a star. - He noticed a falling star. (He noticed the fall of a star.)

b) Take any elementary sentence and use various transformation steps to change its predicative syntactic semantics.

Model: He wrote a book. - Did he write a book? - He didn't write a book. - If only he wrote a book! - He might write a book. - He happened to write a book. - He can write a book. - He managed to write a book. - A book was written by him. - It was a book that he wrote. - Oh, he did write a book!

 

 

Test for seminar 12

1. Define the type of the sentence on the base of positional parts presentation: I am a teacher.

A. expanded                                      B. unexpanded

What syntactic functions do the nouns fulfill in the following sentence?

My sister (a), Mary (b), was once a cheer (c) leader (d) at school (e).

3. Define the degree of completeness in the following sentence: How nice!

A. complete (two-axes) sentence

B. incomplete (one-axis) sentence with free ellipsis

C. incomplete (one-axis) sentence with fixed ellipsis

4. The idea of paradigmatic description of syntax was first introduced by:

A. Ch. Fillmore

B. N. Chomsky

C. linguists of the Prague linguistic school

5. Define the type of the following sentences on the base of their principal parts types: 1) She looks sad. 2) It is windy today.

A. a) actional; b) statal

B. a) factual; b) perceptional

C. a) with simple predicate; b) with compound verbal predicate; c) with compound nominal predicate

What kind of phrasalization do we have in the case below?

1) The tree has grown. à the growth of the tree	A. complete nominalization
2) The film ended. à the film ending	B. partial nominalization

Match the predicative functions to their definitions?

1) lower functions	A. expressed by syntactic categorial oppositions
2) higher functions	B. expressed by such morphological categories as tense and aspect

8. The transformation of the kernel sentence is called “syntactic …”.

9. The sentence: Why on earth didn’t he ask me about it? Are there marked member(s) of the following syntactic categories?

A. the category of communicative purpose

B. the category of existence quality (affirmation/ negation )

C. the theory of realization

D. the category of modal identity

E. the category of phase

D. the category of subject-object relations

G. the category of emotional intensity

H. others

 

Test for seminar 12

1. Define the type of the sentence on the base of positional parts presentation: I am a teacher.

A. expanded                                      B. unexpanded

What syntactic functions do the nouns fulfill in the following sentence?

My sister (a), Mary (b), was once a cheer (c) leader (d) at school (e).

3. Define the degree of completeness in the following sentence: How nice!

A. complete (two-axes) sentence

B. incomplete (one-axis) sentence with free ellipsis

C. incomplete (one-axis) sentence with fixed ellipsis

4. The idea of paradigmatic description of syntax was first introduced by:

A. Ch. Fillmore

B. N. Chomsky

C. linguists of the Prague linguistic school

5. Define the type of the following sentences on the base of their principal parts types: 1) She looks sad. 2) It is windy today.

A. a) actional; b) statal

B. a) factual; b) perceptional

C. a) with simple predicate; b) with compound verbal predicate; c) with compound nominal predicate