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6. The contribution to contrastive investigations of the
brothers F. and A. Schlegel and of W. Humboldt, H. Steinthal and
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others in the 19 century linguistics.
7. Prague school linguists (V. Mathesius, N. Trubetskoy, V.
Skalicka, R. Jacobson, and others) and their contribution to
typological investigations.
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8. Other 20 century linguists (E. Sapir, J. Greenberg, O.
Isachenko, N. Ya. Marr, M. Kalynovych, Y. Zhluctenko) and their
contribution to typological investigations and contrastive
linguistics.

PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENT 1.1.2

CONTRASTING OF ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN
NOTIONAL PARTS OF SPEECH (NOUN, ADJECTIVE
AND VERB)

I. Read each sentence and identify the underlined noun
as countable or uncountable. What aspects of each noun’s
form, meaning or context helped you to decide whether it was
countable or countable? Provide Ukrainian equivalents to the
underlined English nouns. Do English and Ukrainian nouns
coincide in their characteristics?
1. He spends as much time out of the home as possible
(fiction writing).
2. Young people have got to stand up for their rights
(conversation).
3. How to achieve a happy love life (newspaper writing).
4. Nevertheless speaking French imposes some order, some
uniformity (newspaper writing).
5. For many of us this is a matter of life and death
(newspaper writing).

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