Classical scientific grammar of e-sh

The 1^st time of scientific G-s is known as classical scientific G. It originated at the very end of the 19^th c. Its principles were described by H. Sweet “A new E-sh G., logical & historical”: “the genuine task of G is not to dictate the standards of correctness but 1) to explain why people speak this or that way. 2) to give scientific treatment of linguistic phenomena. The Golden stage of classical scientific G lasted from the end of the 19^th c up to the 40s of the 20^th c. The most prominent scholars: C.T. Onions “Advanced E-sh Syntax”, O. Jesperson “A modern E-sh G on historical principles”.

Morphology. 1) the case problem - the number of cases for the N fluctuated from 2 to 5. O. Jesperson spoke about 2 cases: common, genitive. Pronoun: nominative, objective.

2) Parts of speech. Henry Sweet was the 1^st to introduce 3 scientific principles for the distribution of words into classes: gram.m., syntactic function, form. But in classifying PofSp he wasn’t very consistent in using these principles. So his clas-n turned out very contradictory. He worked out his own system of PofSp: the substantive, the Adj, the V, the Prn (including pronominal adverbs where why there), particles.

In maj of Gr we find the traditional system of 8 PofSp which was borrowed from the normative Gr-s of the 19c.

At that time there were no scientific principles for the classification of words into the parts of speech.

H. Sweet (at the very end of the 19 th. century) - the originator of classical scientific grammar. Idea: while distributing words into various classes it is necessary to take into consideration their grammatical meaning, form and function.

His own system of types of speech.

I stage: declinable and indeclinable (изменяемые и неизменяемые).

Declinable: 1) noun-words - nouns proper, noun-pronoun, noun-numeral (cardinal – hundreds of people), infinitive, gerund;

2) adjective- words – adjective proper, adjective-pronoun, adjective-numeral (ordinal), participle I and II;

3) verb-words – finite verbs, infinitive, gerund, participle I and II;

Indeclinable: adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections.

This system of parts of speech isn’t very consistent, as the author didn’t use all the three principle, which he had proclaimed simultaneously but at various stages various principle were made leading by him. At the first stage when declinable words were opposed to indeclinable the principle of form was leading. At the second stage when declinable words were subdivided further on the principle of function became leading. Due to this fact some words occurred in two groups simultaneously. Such classes as pronoun and numerals have no status of their own, but are distributed between nouns and adjectives. The adverb, included into the group of indeclinable words, has degrees of comparison, which means it can change its forms. O. Jesperson (scientific grammar) put forward the same three principles above mentioned. He distributed all the words into 5 parts of speech: 1)Nouns; 2)Adjectives; 3)Pronouns, including numerals and pronominal adverbs (where, why, how, when); 4)Verbs, including verbids or verbals (inf., ger., part.); 5)Participle: participle proper (just, too, enough, only, yet, etc.), prepositions, conjunctions. The 5 th. class was a kind of dump where he included the words which didn’t fit into the four previous classes.

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