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20. Categorial meaning of English verbs, their lexical / grammatical subclasses and morphemic structure.

Categorial meaning – dynamic process, process developing in time

Syntactic function – predicate

The Grammatical Categories of the English Verb:

  • Person and number

  • Aspect

  • Tense

  • Voice

  • Mood

Subclasses of verbs:

Notional

  • Have full nominative value

  • Comprise an open class of words

(Semi)functional

  • Have partial nominative value

  • Comprise a close class of words

NOTIONAL VERBS

1) Actional -Denote the action of the active doer

Physical -to write, to fight, to help

Mental -To calculate, to compare

Perceptual- To look, to listen, to smell

2) Statal -Denote the action of the inactive experiencer

Physical- to ripen, to deteriorate

Mental - to understand, to forget

Perceptual - to see, to hear, to smell

The aspect features of verbal semantics:

  • durative / continual : continue, linger, last, live, exist

  • Iterative / repeated: reconsider, return

  • terminate / concluded: terminate, finish, end, close

  • interminate / non-concluded: live, study, think

  • instantaneous / momentary: burst, click, drop, fall

  • ingressive / starting: begin, start, resume

  • supercompleted : outgun, oversimplify

  • undercompleted: underestimate, undersleep

The combinatory potential of the verb:

  • Transitive verbs take a prepositionless complement (the direct object)

  • Objective verbs combine both with the subject and the object

  • Intransitive verbs usually cannot take the direct object

  • Subjective verbs are connected to the subject only

(SEMI)FUNCTIONAL VERBS

-AUXILIARIES - build analytical forms of the notional verbs

-MODALS - denote subject attitudes to the action

-VERBID INTRODUCERS - introduce non-finite forms of the verb into the structure of the sentence

-COPULAS - connect the nominative part of the predicate to the subject

English verbal tense forms: 4 verbal tense forms: the present, the past , the future, and the future-in-the-past .

21. Morphological categories of English verbs.

According to different principles of classification, classifications can be morphological, lexical-morphological, syntactical and functional.

A. Morphological classifications..  I. According to their stem-types all verbs fall into: simple (to go),sound-replacive (food - to feed, blood - to bleed), stress-replacive (import - to import, transport - to transport, expanded (with the help of suffixes and prefixes): cultivate, justify, overcome, composite (correspond to composite nouns): to blackmail), phrasalto have a smoke, to give a smile (they always have an ordinary verb as an equivalent). 2.According to the way of forming past tenses and Participle II verbs can be regularand irregular.

B. Lexical-morphological classification is based on the implicit grammatical meanings of the verb. According to the implicit grammatical meaning of transitivity/intransitivity verbs fall into transitive andintransitive. According to the implicit grammatical meaning of stativeness/non-stativeness verbs fall into stative and dynamic. According to the implicit grammatical meaning of terminativeness/non-terminativeness verbs fall into terminative and durative. This classification is closely connected with the categories of Aspect and Phase.

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