Theoretical english grammar assessment

PRACTICAL CLASSES
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 1
ENGLISH IN THE SYSTEM OF GENETIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF LANGUAGES
1. What is the most reliable language means that helps to define the genealogical identity of languages: phonetic, lexical or grammatical means, spelling of words?
2. What`s the reason of splitting of tribes referring to the same family?
3. What is the reason of language changes that have developed from the same source language?
4. Why languages borrow words from other languages?
5. What do you understand when you hear others say that languages are still on the move?
6. What can you say about the equality of languages? Try to prove your arguments by examples.
7. The morphological classification of languages: what is the reason of using the term “morphological?”.
8. What are the intensions of linguists when they classify world languages from the point of view of their grammatical structure?
9. The trainees will have to explain the difference between English and their students` mothertongue. Those who know other languages but English, Uzbek, Russian will have to try to compare those languages with English.
10. What are the characteristic features of flectional languages?
11. What`s the difference between flectional–synthetic and flectional analytical languages?
12. What is the main difference between flectional and agglutinating/agglutinative languages? Are there any common features between them?
13. What can you say about similarities and differences in the field of word-order between the two mentioned types of languages?
14. What type of languages refer to Isolating ones? What are the most important grammatical features of this type of languages?
15. What can you say about Polysynthetic type of languages? Is there any similarity between agglutinating and polysynthetic types of languages?


CHAPTER 2