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LINGUISTIC BASIS OF TEACHING COMPLEX SYNTACTIC ENGLISH STRUCTURES AT HIGHER SCHOOLS

Kirvalidze, Nino and Samnidze, Nino (2014) LINGUISTIC BASIS OF TEACHING COMPLEX SYNTACTIC ENGLISH STRUCTURES AT HIGHER SCHOOLS. Journal of Teaching and Education, 03 (03). pp. 143-151. ISSN ISSN: 2165-6266

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Abstract

One of the problematic tasks of TESL at higher schools is the teaching of complex syntactic structures, so called “absolute constructions”, abundant use of which creates genre-stylistic typicality of literary narrative texts. However, in university linguistic literature the teaching of absolute constructions has been limited so far to determining their grammatical status or syntactic functions in a sentence. We assume that among the essential issues, that should underlie the teaching of these constructions, is the revelation of their linguosemiotic essence via establishing their semantic types in narrative texts. This paper offers semantic typology of absolute constructions that has been carried out in the context of a container sentence. Our research has shown that in narrative texts absolute constructions function to designate mainly two types of situations or events of the textual world: either they qualify one of the components of the target situation reflected in the subject-predicate grammatical kernel of the sentence or expand the situation itself, making it more precise by creating panoramic background of events and situations against which the plot of the narrative develops. Keywords: Absolute constructions, Proposition, Semantic typology.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
P Language and Literature > PE English
Divisions: Faculties/Schools > Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Depositing User: Prof. Nino Kirvalidze
Date Deposited: 23 Mar 2015 06:05
Last Modified: 23 Mar 2015 06:06
URI: http://eprints.iliauni.edu.ge/id/eprint/1788

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