Theoretical english grammar assessment

Chapter 28
Event integration in syntax
1. What is the functional role of schematizing in the description of event-structure of sentences?
2. What is the essence of changing the framing event?
3. What are the functions of Precursion and Enablement?
4. What is conceptual structure of the event?
5. What is the satellite in event theory?


Chapter 29
Pragmatical aspects of linguistic units
1. What is cohesion and major categories of cohesion do you know?
2. What does collocation include? What is its function in the text?
3. How can much of the textual meaning be understood?
4. What are the major types of deictic markers?
5. What is Ch. Morris’s opinion on pragmatics?
6. What verbs do we call “performative verbs”?
7. What can you say about locutionary act (illocutionary act? perlocutionary act, etc.)?
8. What is the essence of “discourse analysis”?
9. What are conversational implicatures and conventional implcatures?
10.What can you say about the essential functions of the English article in the text?
Chapter 30
Psycholinguistic aspects of Grammar
1. What is the subject matter of psycholinguistics?
2. What is the channel of Information and how is its reliability measured?
3. What factors of psycholinguistics can you name?
4. Explain the term “negative speech material”?
5. What are the essential features of the subconscious language?


Chapter 31
Cognitive aspects of grammar
1. What stages of the development of cognitive linguistics do you know?
2. What can you say about the works of J. Taylor and W. Langacker?
3. What is the essence of the conception put forward by N. Wierzbitzka?
4. What can you say about the contribution made by W. Chafe, J. Fillmore to Cognitive Grammar?
5. What trends and schools of cognitive grammar do you know?
6. What is the contribution of N. Chomsky to the formation and development of Cognitive Grammar?