CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………...2 Chapter I. Functional parts of speech…………………………………3 1.1. The Parts of Speech Problem. Grammatical Classes of Words……........3 1.2. General Overview of the Category of Article in English functional………………………………………………………………….….14 Chapter II. The functions of the definite article …………………………..19 2.1. The Functions of the Definite Article in English………………………...19 2.2. Certain Peculiarities in the Use of the Definite Article with Class Nouns…………………………………………………………………………30 CONCLUSION ……………………………………………………………..35 USED LITERATURE ……………………………………………………..37 INTRODUCTION - INTRODUCTION
- An article is a word that combines with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun and to specify the volume or numerical scope of that reference. Article can be also thought of as a special kind of adjective, because it combines with a noun and contributes to the meaning of the noun-phrase. Many linguists place the article in the category of determiners. M. Ia. Blokh in his book “Theoretical Grammar of the English Language” says “The article is a determining unit of specific nature accompanying the noun in communicative collocation.” The linguists L. A. Barmina and I. P. Verkhovskaya have the same idea about the article as a determiner. They attribute it to a syntactic class of words called determiners which modify a noun.
- Chapter I. Functional parts of speech
- 1.1. The Parts of Speech Problem. Grammatical Classes of Words
- A part of speech – are large lexico-grammatical classes of words differentiated on the basis of their semantic, morphological & syntactic propeties; (the grammatical category or word group in a language to which words may be assigned on the basis of how they are used in sentences. The traditional main parts of speech in English are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. Others sometimes used are article and determiner.)
Chapter II. - Chapter II.
- 2.1. The Functions of the Definite Article in English
- For revealing the functions of the English definite article we consulted the books of the following linguists as M.Ia. Blokh, E.M. Gordon and Barmina and Verkhovskaya. After studying Barmina and Verkhovskaya’s theory on the article we can ascertain some functions of the definite article. According to the linguists it can have:
- the morphologic function that consists in serving as a formal indicator of the noun: the presence of the article signals that what follows is a noun.
- syntactic function. The definite article may connect sentences within a text by correlating a noun it modifies with some word or a group of words in the previous context. In the example below the definite article has the connecting function.
- John has brought a book. The book is interesting.
CONCLUSION - CONCLUSION
- In traditional grammar, a part of speech or part-of-speech is a category of words that have similar grammatical properties. Words that are assigned to the same part of speech generally display similar syntactic behavior—they play similar roles within the grammatical structure of sentences—and sometimes similar morphology in that they undergo inflection for similar properties.
- Commonly listed English parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection, numeral, article, or determiner. Other Indo-European languages also have essentially all these word classes; one exception to this generalization is that Latin, Sanskrit and most Slavic languages do not have articles. Beyond the Indo-European family, such other European languages as Hungarian and Finnish, both of which belong to the Uralic family, completely lack prepositions or have only very few of them; rather, they have postpositions.
Reference - Reference
- Baker P.S. Introduction to Old English. Oxford, 2003, p. 40
- Mitchell B. Old English Syntax. Oxford, 1985, p. 96
- Berndt R. History of the English Language. 1982, p. 60
- Russom, G. Old English Meter and Linguistic Theory. Cambridge, 1987, p.78
- MacLaughlin, J. Old English syntax: A handbook. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer.1983, p. 115
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