Theoretical grammar of English language

1. GRAMMATICAL CLASSES OF WORDS.
Elene Tsikarishvili

2. THE WORD IS THE THIRD LEVEL OF LANGUAGE
Phonemic level
Morphemic level
LEXEMIC LEVEL (WORDS)
Phrasemic level
Pro-semic level
Supra-prosemic level

3. LINGUISTIC DISTINCTION OF WORD CLASSES
 Grammatical
 Etymological
 Semantic
 Stylistic
 No classification can be adequate to its aim if it
ignores the grammatical principles.

4. TRADITIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF WORD
 Semantic
( The semantic criterion presupposes the evaluation
of the generalized categorial meaning of the words
of the given part of speech.)
 Formal
(The fromal criterion provides for the exposition of all
formal features of all the lexemic subsets of a
particular part of speech. )
 Functional
(The functional criterion concerns the typical syntactic
functions of a part of speech. )

5. GRAMMATICAL CLASSES
‘’PARTS OF SPEECH’’
The words of language are divided into grammatical
classes. The traditional grammatical classes are
called ‘’parts of speech’’.
 Noun
 Pronoun
 Verb
 Adverb
 Adjective
 Numeral
oArticle
oParticle
oConjunction
oInterjunction
oPreposition
oModal Verb

6.  The notional parts of speech are the words of
complete nominative value. In the utterance they
fulfil self-dependent functions of naming and
denoting things , their substantial properties.
 The functional words are words of incomplete
nominative value, but of absolutely essential
relational (grammatical) value.

7.  Noun
 Pronoun
 Verb
 Adverb
 Adjective
 Numeral
 Article
 Particle
 Conjunction
 Interjunction
 Preposition
 Modal Verb
Notional Parts Of Speech
Functional Parts of speech

8. SYNTACTIC CLASSSIFICATION OF WORDS
The syntactic classification of words is based on
syntactic featuring of words only.
Four main syntactic positions of notional words:
o Noun
o Verb
o Adjective
o Adverb
Pronouns are included as their substitues.

9. THE THREE-LAYER CLASSIFICATION OF
WORDS BY M. BLOKH.
 The first ,the upper layer, is formed by four classes
of notional words.
 The second, intermediate layer is formed by
pronominal words.
 The third, the lower layer is formed by functional
words .

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