Theoretical English Grammar. Part 1. Morphology. Бочарова М.В. - 15 стр.

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o The defining characteristics of central verbs.
They are a class of notional words which:
– express the general semantics of Action / Event;
– have the morphological categories of Tense, Aspect, Correlation, Voice,
Mood, Person and Number;
– function as the Predicate in the sentence.
o A very heterogeneous class
CLASSIFICATIONS OF VERBS
o semantic classes:
1.1 terminative verbs (actional);
1.2 durative verbs: existential verbs and verbs of activities.
These major classes can be further subdivided into other semantic groups, e.g.
communication verbs, mental verbs, causative verbs, verbs of occurrence, etc.
o functional-semantic classes:
Verb class Meaning Morphological
categories
Syntactic function
2.1. No-
tional /
Lexical
Verbs
– Full individual
lexical meaning
– all the Morpho-
logical verbal
categories are real-
ized;
– complete para-
digms
– form the verbal
Predicate on their
own
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o The defining characteristics of central verbs.


They are a class of notional words which:
– express the general semantics of Action / Event;
– have the morphological categories of Tense, Aspect, Correlation, Voice,
Mood, Person and Number;
– function as the Predicate in the sentence.


o A very heterogeneous class



CLASSIFICATIONS OF VERBS


o semantic classes:
   1.1 terminative verbs (actional);
   1.2 durative verbs: existential verbs and verbs of activities.


These major classes can be further subdivided into other semantic groups, e.g.
communication verbs, mental verbs, causative verbs, verbs of occurrence, etc.


o functional-semantic classes:
   Verb class         Meaning           Morphological      Syntactic function
                                          categories
  2.1. No-       – Full individual     – all the Morpho-   – form the verbal
  tional /       lexical meaning       logical verbal      Predicate on their
  Lexical                              categories are real- own
  Verbs                                ized;
                                       – complete para-
                                       digms



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