Lecture 6. The Verb. Finite Forms.
Lecture 6.
1.1. The Verb: General Characterictics
Grammatically the verb is the most complex part of speech since it performs… The verb is characterised by a complex structure of grammatical categories and various subclass divisions.…
2) The ability of the verb to perform the syntactic function of the predicate (this criterion is not absolute).
3) The ability of any verb in the form of the infinitive to combine with a…
Auxiliary verbs,
They build up grammatical elements of the categorial forms of the verb (be, have, do, shall, will, should, would, may, might).
The modal verbs can, may, must, shall, will, ought, need, used (to), dare are defective in forms, and are suppletively supplemented by stative…
Semi-notional verbid introducer verbs,
These verbs fall into predicators of 1) verbal discriminatory relational semantics (seem, happen, turn out, etc.), 2) subject-action relational semantics (try, fail, manage, etc.), 3) phasal semantics (begin, continue, stop, etc.).
1) those that express perceptions (seem, appear, look, feel, taste)
2) those that express non-perceptional/factual link-verb connection (become,… Besides the link-verbs proper there are some notional verbs (mostly intransitive verbs of motion and position) that…
Actional
They express the action performed by the subject (present the subject as an active doer): do, act, perform, make, go, read, learn, discover, etc.
3) purely processual (processual-statal and processual-actional) – OPTIONAL SUBCLASS can be treated as reduction of binary oppositions (actional vs… These verbs express neither actions, nor states, but ‘processes’ (thaw, ripen,… The snow is thawing (the ‘purely processual’ verb thaw referring to an inactive substance should be defined…