2.2. The Core of the Grammatical Tradition – Parts of Speech

 1. Topics for Discussion   2. Self-study Issues: 
 * 1) How universal are the English traditional eight parts of speech? Which are less universal – notionals or functionals?
 * 2) What are the major features of а functional part of speech? Are modal words functional? What about interjections?
 * 3) Try and show controversy over traditional part of speech classification. Speak of prototypical and peripheral members as well as of indeterminacy of where the boundaries should be drawn.
 * 4) Compare traditional and syntactico-distributional classifications of parts of speech.
 * 5) Compare H.Sweet’s and O.Jespersen’s part-of-speech classifications.
 * 6) What does each criteria in three-principle classifications stand for?

What is lexical paradigm of nomination? Give examples. How are the basic four related?

What are pronouns syntactically? The idea of pro-words.

 

 Key Terms 

 1. declinable and indeclinable parts of speech

 2. notional and functional parts of speech

 3. lexico-grammatical groups

 4. part-of-speech meaning

 5. categorial meaning of a word