Angličtina

§ Hinge life into situations, hinge action§ Most complex, important word class ® express great number of grammatical categories§ Way we perceive processes: states, activities (produced by agent), actions, acts, events, happenings (without helping...

pre-head / modifier head post-head / qualifiersextremely hot indeedvery difficult to solvequite fond of musicso glad that you won the match · adjectival group doesn’t have a determiner modifier:intensification:quite, most, very, pretty, fairlyo and...

used attributively pre-modifiers in the nominal group (precede the noun), usually follow the determinerthat ugly modern picture. they can be used in post-position attribute is long adjectival phrase)It is a house much bigger than...

Ordering of adjectives in multiple pre-modification:pre-central after determiner; usually adjectives non-gradable, used for emphasiscentral subjective and objective epithets; subject comes as firstpost-central participial adjectivepre-head classifiers; nearest to the nouncertain (emphasis)rich (subjective)old (objective)retired (participial)American (classifier)Overlap...

· notional = derived from nouns comparison / grading exists only with adjectives and adverbs means the expression of a comparison:o to a higher degree (more, most) / positiveo to the same degree (as...

IT variety of functionsrefer to specific object named in the context beforeWhere’s the book? It’s on the shelf.refer to a situation anaphoricly describedThere’s always a lot of noise in the evening. It annoys me.refer...

· Denote features, qualities, relationships, classes to items which are related to nounReference: to state (lonely x loneliness, happy x happiness) to qualities (nice, lovely, ugly) to features resulting from processes (increasing, confused) to...

§ Important because of different functions and categories§ Classification is different in different grammars§ All the classes are closed classes = they contain final set of elements (thou, thee as the 2nd person disappeared)...

Case relates only to personal pronounswe distinguish subjective case (I, you, he) objective case (me, him) subjective (somebody, someone, one) genitive (somebody’s, someone’s, one’s) Gender possessive, personal, reflexive, sometimes interrogative, relative pronounso masculineo feminine...

§ express exact quantities§ if followed by noun ® determiner of nominal group§ 2 subclasses o cardinalo ordinal Lexical morphology of numerals: cardinal § 1 – 12 separate items§ 12 – 19, 20, 30…...