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ЛЕКЦІЯ 1

M 1 CONTRASTIVE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH AND
UKRAINIAN AS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
PHILOLOGICAL SUBJECTS

ЗМ 1.1 NOTIONAL PARTS OF SPEECH IN THE
CONTRASTED LANGUAGES

CONTRASTIVE GRAMMAR AS ONE OF THE
IMPORTANT PHILOLOGICAL SUBJECTS

OUTLINES:

1. Contrastive studies of languages
2. The subject of contrastive grammar and its theoretical and
practical aims
3. Methods of research, used in contrastive studies
4. The principle terms and notions, used in contrastive Grammar

Keywords: isomorphism, allomorphism, expression means,
universals, singularities, regularities, contrasting, metalanguage.

1. Contrastive studies or languages

Any human language is characterized by three of
constitutional features: universal (pertaining to all or the majority
of languages), typological (characteristic only of a certain group of
languages, creating a language type) and individual (formed only in
one language). To reveal the mentioned features is possible only
with the help of comparison or contrasting (порівняння чи
зіставлення).
The method of comparison or contrasting is not a new one
and is employed as a major one by a number of linguistic
disciplines, namely the comparative-historic linguistics

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