o Principles for classifying words into lexical-grammatical classes (‘parts of speech’):
- the general semantic principle
- the formal morphological principle
- the functional syntactic principle
o Different classifications of words into ‘parts of speech’: the underlying principle/-s; their strengths and weaknesses.
o The major groups of vocabulary (acc. to prof. Smirnitsky):
- parts of speech proper,
- function / form words,
- words outside the sentence structure.
Their defining characteristics
o The field approach to classifying words into lexical-grammatical classes. The field structure of a lexical-grammatical class. Central and peripheral elements.
o Overlaps between two or more lexical-grammatical classes. Zones of syncretism, syncretic elements.
o Word-class ambiguities and borderline cases in classifying words, e.g.:
- Noun – Verb
- Noun – Adj.
- Verb – Adj.
- Determiner – Pronoun – Adj.
- Preposition – Conjunction, etc.