Communicative types of sentences

SYNTAGMATIC CONNECTIONS OF WORDS

SYNTAX OF THE PHRASE.

LECTURE 7

SENTENCE: GENERAL. ACTUAL DIVISION OF THE SENTENCE.

1. The phrase as a polynominative lingual unit. The correlation of the phrase with the word, and the sentence. The problem of definition of the phrase.

2. Notional, formative and functional phrases. Equipotent and dominational connections between the phrase constituents. Categorial agreement, government, prepositional government, adjoining, enclosure.

3. The classification of phrases according to part-of-speech, functional and positional criteria.

4. The sentence as the main communicative unit of syntax.

5. Predication as a fundamental distinguishing feature of the sentence.

6. The notion of actual division of the sentence.

7. The basic communicative types of sentences. The classification of utterance types by Ch. Fries. The problem of the exclamatory sentence type.

8. Intermediary (mixed) communicative types of sentences.

9. The pragmatic communicative types of the sentence: classification of speech acts.

Key terms: - phrase, word-combination, syntagmatic groupings of words, polynominative lingual unit, polydenoteme (monodenoteme), ‘minor syntax’, ‘major syntax’, notional phrase, formative phrase, functional phrase, equipotent (paratactic) and dominational (hypotactic) connections, consecutive equipotent (coordinative proper) and cumulative equipotent connections, dominational consecutive (subordinative proper) and dominational cumulative connections, kernel (kernel element, key/head word), adjunct, monolateral/bilateral domination, agreement, government (prepositional/non - prepositional), adjoining, enclosure, regressive and progressive phrases.

- predicative lingual unit, predication (syntactic modality), the category of modality, nominalization, intonational arrangement, sentence models, utterance, nominative (syntactic, grammatical) division of the sentence.

- informative value, informative perspective, actual division (functional analysis, communicative analysis), theme (“basis”), rheme (“nucleus”, “peak” of communication), logical analysis of proposition (logical subject, logical predicate), direct (unmarked) actual division, inverted (reverse, marked) actual division, inverted word order.

- purpose of communication, declarative, interrogative and imperative communicative types, non-communicative utterances, exclamatory sentence, open rheme, basic and intermediary (mixed) communicative types, indirect questions, rhetorical questions, “theory of speech acts”, pragmatic utterance types (performatives, constatives, promissives, etc.), indirect speech acts.

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