Архів обранного тега »lexical meaning«
→ July 14, 2012
Defining the preposition, linguists usually point out three main properties: 1) the preposition is a functional part of speech, i.e. a preposition cannot perform an independent syntactic function; 2) the preposition is a word expressing subordinate relations between lexical parts of speech; 3) the preposition is a word with an obligatory pre-nounal position: it may […]
→ June 14, 2012
While the noun, the adjective, and the verb are characterized by all the three properties of a part of speech – morphological, syntactic and semantic, the numeral, like the pronoun, is distinguished only due to its lexical meaning. Numerals indicate exact number or the order of persons and things in a series. Accordingly, numerals are […]
→ June 13, 2012
Morphologically, pronouns represent quite a diverse group. Thus, the category of case is a property of the personal pronouns, in which one may observe the distinct opposition “nominative case – objective case”. The indefinite-personal pronoun one and derivatives with the components -body and -one are also marked for the case category, since they demonstrate the […]
→ March 6, 2012
Almost any part of speech may undergo further differentiation into subgroups. One of the traditional categorizations of the noun consists of the two large classes – proper nouns and common nouns. It should be noted that proper nouns have been usually overlooked by linguists, since their lexical meaning is difficult to investigate. Both philosophers and […]
→ March 2, 2012
As we have seen, all the attempts to work out a vocabulary classification based on one criterion only have failed. The main principles of ancient as well as modern wordstock classifications were explicitly formulated by Russian academician Lev Shcherba. These are 1) semantic criterion; 2) morphological criterion, and 3) syntactic criterion. As it has been […]