TY  - JOUR
T1  - Optionality in English Grammar
AU - Bilyalova, A.A. AU - Lyubova, T.V. AU - Zaynullina, L.M. 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 4
SP  - 502
EP  - 506
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.502.506
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.502.506
KW  - Optionality
KW  -an article
KW  -variability
KW  -obligatory
KW  -optional
KW  -variants
AB  - The main objective of the styudy is the analysis of the use of articles with common nouns in the
English language in terms of optionality. Optionality here is observed as a linguistic phenomenon which
involves an optional or free use of one of the grammar variants or language means conveying meaning in the
particular linguistic and extralinguistic terms. The co-existence of parallel structures in the use of articles with
a common noun is a widely spread phenomenon in modern English. As a result the study attempts to determine
the obligatory and optional variants of the use of articles, based on the semantic and structural reasons. The
researcher comes to the conclusion that the study of grammatical variants in the usage of articles has an
extremely high theoretical and practical importance because the existing rules for the use of articles in modern
English are not always circumstantial as they regulate the use of articles, restricting them to a limited number
of language situations
ER  -