Дипломная работа: Stylistic potential of tense-aspect verbal forms in modern English

In our practical part-the second part of our paper – we give a lot of examples from original literature using this table and presenting some connotations of tense-aspect system conveyed by verbal forms:

– historical presence;

- continuous verbal forms;

– echo-questions;

– popular language;

– modal verbs, particles, idioms;

– repetitions of grammar forms;

– archaic verbal forms.

Two types of transposition [Table 1.4] described by I.V. Arnold are used in our practical part with the aim to expand the frames of their usage as obvious and visuial examples from English original literature.

Y.M. Skrebnev in his book Fundamentals of English Stylistics (lines down that «Stylistic Morphology, both paradigmatic and syntagmatic, has not yet been given full attention, especially with regard to English that has very few inflections, and most grammatical meanings are expressed analytically». [33; 84]The author puts in the forefront the problems of synonymy and transposition:

– variability of verbal forms;

– morphological difference between verbal forms;

– abolishing the morphlogical differentiations between Subjunctive II of the verb «to be» and the past indicative;

– «ungrammatical» usage of verbal forms;

– «praesens historicum» and others.

Y.M. Skrebnev represents Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Morphology as means of the sylistic stocks. The author treats practically all the essentials of stylistics, gives numerous samples of text analysis, teaches the students to interpret and find adequate verbal account for stylistic impressions.

Satisfactory results in the philological training of students can be achieved only on condition that students have firmly, mastered the basic principles if every linguistic disciplin, stylistics included.

In the next monograph «English Stylistics» written by A.N. Morokhovskei it is accentuated that Stylistics is a synthetico – linguisitic subject and the language is researched as the system with a lot of elements that united into:

1. Expression means on all linguistic levels.

2. STYLISTIC DEVICES ON ALL COLLOQUIAL LEVELS.

3. Functional correlations with a society and environment.

In chapter «Stylistic usage of the verbal means » the author underlines that all stylistic possibilities of English verbs are very rich if we take into account a variety of verbal forms vebals and their range of meanings, tinges and nuances. The author considers that the tense-aspect forms can be presented in the contexts by the ways of making and creating their syntactic correlations (intercommunications) between forms, structures, constructions and grammar categories. And it is not disputed because the – verbal formations and» arragements are the main dynamic means and devices of stylistic expressions in literary, puplicistic and colloquial styles.

In this monograph these are a lot of interesting facts from different connotations in the grammatical, semantic and polysemantic realisations.

e.g. Douglas: Cris is doing all right, Basil.

Greff: Is that true? Are you doing all right, Cris?

In the question we can catch of feel either ironic or warm intonation but not duration expressed by the continuous tense. The forms of the present indefinite and present continuous are used for the transmission of facts, actions, events which have illsion of the Result but not duration as in following:

e.g.: Thanks for breakfast. I’m catching the train home. We can mart; that the modality of the obligation is shown by means of the continuous tense.

1. The categories of the English voice also can be in the role of stylistic means and devices:

e.g.: Since to love is better to be loved . It is the structure with antithesis.