Assignment 2 the category of case The problems for discussion

1. Case as the morphological category of the noun.

2. The positional case theory and give its evaluation.

3. The theory of prepositional case and its blunder.

4. The limited case theory, its basis.

5. The theory of the possessive postpositions and the basic arguments against it.

6. The rational solution of the problem.

7. The range of relational meanings of the genitive case.

8. The form types of the personal pronouns.

Recommended reading:

1. Blokh M.Y. A Course in Theoretical English Grammar.- M: Vysshaya Shkola, 2000, Ch. VIII.

2. Ilyish B.A. The Structure of modern English. - L.: Prosveschenie, 1971, С 41-47.

3. Иванова Т.П., Бурлакова В.В., Почепцов Г.Г. Теоретическая грамматика современного английского языка. - М: Высш. Шк., 1981, С. 25-28.

4. Иофик Л.Л., Чахоян Л.П., Поспелова А.Г. Хрестоматия по теоретической грамматике английского языка. - Л.: Просвещение, 1981, С. 57-63.

Additional task

1. Падежная грамматика

2. Recommended reading

1. Филлмор Ч. Дело о падеже. Новое в зарубежной лингвистике, в. 10, М., 1981.

2. Кубрякова Е.С., Панкрац Ю.Г. Падежная грамматика в кн. Совр. зарубежные грамматические теории, М., 1985.

Practical tasks:

1. Identify the following genitives using the transformations if helpful.

1. We found out file woman's story afterwards. (Jerome). 2. Desert's voice seemed to leap from restraint. (Galsworthy). 3. For the next four days he lived a simple and blameless life on thin captain's biscuits... (Jerome). 4. Never, never... did seven days race so madly past, tumbling over each other's heels. (Broughton). 5. I gaze lovingly at the rich brown earth, so lately freed from the frost's grasp... (Broughton), 6. "She kept a chandler's shop," pursued Bounderby. (Dickens). 7. In a word, he went out and ate ices at a pastry-cook's shop in Charing Cross... (Thackeray). 8. This man lives at Rod's End, and I don't quite know Rod's End. (Dickens). 9, I was one of a party who hired an up-river boat one summer, for a few days' trip, (Jerome). 10. George... promptly stepped into bow's place ... (Jerome). 11. After this, they conversed on different subjccis until they arrived at their journey's end. (Dickens). 12. They (George's father and George's father's friend) were to sleep in the same room, but in different beds. (Jerome). 13. My counsel is that you go out of harm's way. (Thackeray). 14. ... Colonel Francis Esmond, my Lord's cousin and her Ladyship's, who had married the Dean of Winchester's daughter... (Thackeray), 15. They sometimes, after fifteen hours'work, sat down to read mere fables about men and women more or less like themselves. (Dickens). 16. "I'll have half-a-crown's worth of brandy, neat, if you please, miss," he responded. (Jerome). 17. Just before you come to the abbey, and right, on the river's bank, is Bisham Church... (Jerome). 18. Fleur wanted the added richness and excitement which Wilfrid's affection gave to life, but without danger and without loss. (Galsworthy). 19. The two ladies in the dining-room wondered to their hearts' content at Sir Pitt's offer and Rebecca's refusal. (Thackeray). 20, What w'-as it for good gracious goodness' sake, that the greedy little Grad-grinds grasped it! (Dickens). 21. We pegged and quaffed away in silence for a while, until the time came... when we rested our glasses at arm's length upon the table. (Jerome). 22. This time she noticed on the wall inside a pattern of blown birds' eggs... (Bates). 23. A picture would come home from the frame-maker's, and be standing in the dining-room... (Jerome). 24, Cromwell and Bradshaw (not the guide man but the King Charles's head man) likewise sojourned here. (Jerome). 25. ... the heroine of the three-volume novel always dines there when she goes out on the spree with somebody else's husband. (Jerome). 26. Strange that Nature's voices all around them... [the monks] should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. (Jerome). 27. The great cornerstone in England's temple of liberty I.Magna Charta] was laid in 1215. 28. Stubbles and Spoony ... thought ... that it was general's daughter, who was engaged to somebody else and madly attached to him or that it was a member of Parliament's lady, who proposed four horses and an elopement. (Thackeray). 29. Captain Shotover: "What more have any of us but travelling expenses for our life's Journey?" 30. The front door bell pealed and there sounded the rustle of Sadie's print skirt on the stairs. A man's voice murmured; Sadie answered, careless, ... «I'll ask Mrs. Sheridan".

2. Explain the difference in meaning between the phrases "the car roof", "the car's roof.

3. Find in the book for your home reading the examples illustrating the given problems.