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The theory of oppositions. Types of opposition in morphology

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Paradigmatic correlations are exposed by “oppositions” of grammatical forms - the members of a paradigm. Oppositions are analyzed linguistically with the help of a special method known as “oppositional analysis”.

Opposition members are characterized by two types of features: common features and differential features.

Common features serve as the basis for uniting the grammatical forms within the same paradigm. In the example, cat and cats, the two forms are paradigmatically united as forms of one and the same word, sharing the categorical grammatical meaning of number. Differentialfeatures serve to differentiate the members of an opposition. For example, the grammatical form of the plural, cats, has an inflection, or a grammatical suffix, which the form of the singular, cat, has not.

On the basis of various combinations of common and differential features, several types of oppositions are distinguished.

The prevalent (преобладающий) type in English grammar is a binary privative opposition.

The term “ binary ” means, that the opposition consists of two members, or forms. Besides binary oppositions, there are oppositions, that may include more than two members (“ternary”, “quaternary” and so on).

The term “ privative ” means that the members of the opposition are characterized by the presence/absence of a certain differential feature, which serves as the formal mark of one of its members.

In the example above, cat – cats, the ending of the plural is its formal mark. The member of the opposition characterized by the presence of the differential mark is called “marked”, or “positive”. The other member of the opposition, characterized by the absence of the differential feature, is called “ unmarked ”, or “ negative ”.

Oppositions can be 3 types:

Private (privative) (always binary in strucrure): sing(-) pl(+); active(-) passive(+)

Gradual (al the member are marked) clever-cleverer –the cleverest

Equipollent (равнозначный, равноценный) (each member is marked by its own specific feature) present –s; past- ed; future- will

The binary privative opposition is formed by a contrastive pair of members in which one member is characterized by the presence of a certain differential feature (strong, marked, positive), while the other member is characterized by the absence of the feature (weak, unmarked, negative). Eg.

voiced vs. devoiced consonants The gradual opposition is formed by a contrastive group of members which are distinguished not by the presence or absence of a feature, but by the degree of it.

8 (Eg. [ï: - i – e - ae] form a quaternary opposition by the degree of their openness)

The equipollent opposition is formed by a contrastive pair or group in which the members are distinguished by different positive features. (eg. [m] – [b], both bilabial consonants, form an equipollent opposition, [m] being sonorous nasalized, [b] being plosive.)

 
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Class of words Proprieties
The Noun to present objects or things (abstract or concrete).  
The Verb to express action.  
The Adjective to show a sign or a quality of an object or a thing.

 
Language level language unit & function
phonological phoneme- a distinctive unit (distinguish words [lit- lid])
Morphological morpheme- a minimal meaningful unit(re-, -er,-s)
Lexical lexeme (word)- a minimal naming (nominative) unit
Syntactic superphrasemic phrasemic sentence – a minimal communitive unit
the word group- a dependent syntactic unit
 
Sypersyntactic text- the informative unit

· Development of Grammar theory

Emotion of grammar theory.

1) Classical grammar (ancient time- 1840-1850)

2) Historical- comparative grammar (1850- beg. Of the 20th century)

3) Generative- transformational grammar (since 50-s)

4) Semantic trends in grammar (since 60-s- 70-s)

5) Text (textual) grammar (since the 60-s)

6) Functional grammar (pragmatics) (since the 70-s- 80-s)

 

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