Курс теоретичної граматики сучасної англійської мови

Morphology.
Morphological classifications from the Ancient times to the 20th century.
Morphological classifications in Ancient Indian and Latin grammars.
Morphological classifications from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century.
Morphological theory in the 20th century Western linguistics.
Morphological classifications in Soviet and post-Soviet linguistics.
Field structure of parts of speech Parts of speech as discourse-cognitive classes.
Lexical and functional parts of speech.
Lexical parts of speech.
Noun.
Grammatical meaning.
Morphemic structure.
Subcategorization of nouns.
Semantic classification.
Formal classification.
Grammatical categories.
Gender.
Number.
Case.
Case in traditional grammar.
Case in modem English grammars.
Theory of deep cases.
Syntactic functions.
Adjective.
Grammatical meaning.
Morphemic structure.
Grammatical category: Degrees of comparison.
Syntactic functions.
Substantivized adjectives.
Words denoting state.
Pronoun.
Grammatical meaning.
Semantic classification.
Personal pronouns.
Possessive pronouns.
Demonstrative pronouns.
Reflexive pronouns.
Interrogative pronouns.
Relative pronouns.
Indefinite pronouns.
Negative pronouns.
Defining pronouns.
Reciprocal pronouns.
Grammatical categories.
Numeral.
Verb.
Grammatical meaning.
Morphemic structure.
Morphological, combinatorial and semantic classifications.
Functional classification.
Grammatical categories.
Person and number.
Tense.
Definition.
Tense and Deixis.
Time and Tense correlation.
Absolute, relative and absolute-relative tenses.
Basic and secondary meanings of tenses.
Paradoxical use of tenses.
Sequence of tenses: Indirect speech.
Aspect.
Definition.
Perfective and Imperfective Aspect.
Meaning of Present Perfect form.
Perfect form and aspectual meanings.
Aspect and Tense correlation.
Mood.
Voice.
Non-finite forms of the English verb.
Infinitive.
Gerund.
Participle I.
Participle II.
Tense of English non-finite forms.
Adverb.
Grammatical meaning.
Morphemic structure.
Semantic classification.
Morphological properties.
Syntactic functions.
Modal words.
Interjection.
Grammatical meaning.
Structural and semantic classifications.
Syntactic functions.
Functional parts of speech.
Article.
Grammatical meaning.
Semantic functions of the definite and the indefinite articles. Semantic absence of the article.
Preposition.
Grammatical meaning.
Structural and semantic classifications.
Syntactic functions.
Conjunction.
Grammatical meaning.
Structural and semantic classifications.
Conjunction-words.
Particle.
Grammatical meaning.
Semantic classification.
Syntactic functions.

Syntax.
Syntax as branch of grammar. Syntactic theories.
General remarks.
Syntactic theory in Soviet linguistics.
Syntactic theories in Western linguistics.
Descriptive linguistics.
Glossematics.
Post-Saussurean syntactic theories.
Theory of word combination.
Definition of word combination.
Classifications of word combination.
Correlation between the meaning of a word combination and the meaning of its components.
Word combination level and sentence level.
Structural completeness of word combination.
Valence.
Types of syntactic relations in word combination.
Co-ordination.
Subordination.
Accumulation.
Members of word combinations.
Combinatorial relations.
Notions of agreement, government and parataxis.
Correlation of syntactic and semantic structures in word combinations.
Morphological status of the head and meaning of a word combination.
Lexical meaning of an element and choice of other members in word combinations.
Simple sentence.
Definition of the sentence.
Predication and other features of sentence.
Sentence as central syntactic unit.
Sentence as multidimensional phenomenon.
Classifications of sentences.
Sentence structure.
Sentence parts.
Principal sentence parts.
Secondary sentence parts.
Independent sentence parts.
Semantic characteristics of sentence parts.
Compulsory and optional in syntax.
Structural sentence patterns. Elementary sentence.
Syntactic processes.
Functional sentence perspective.
Composite sentence.
From simple to composite sentences.
Composite sentences. General remarks.
Compound sentences.
Complex sentences.
Interrelation between sentences of different types.
Asyndetic composite sentences. Inserted clauses.

Literature.
Illustrative material.