| Word-combinations | |||||
| I Nuclear | II Nuclear-free | ||||
| 1.1. Regressive | 1.2. Progressive | 2.1. Independent | 2.2. Dependent | ||
| of one class | of different classes | of one class | of different classes | ||
| with the following nuclei: | with the following coordination: | ||||
| 1) adverbial | 4) substantive | 8) conjunctive | 10) mutually dependent with primary predicativity | 11) accumulative | 12) accumulative |
| 2) adjectival | 5) adjectival | 9) non-conjunctive | 13) mutually dependent with secondary predicativity | ||
| 3) substantive | 6) verbal | ||||
| 7) prepositional |
Meanings of the presented types of WC (tab. 7.1):
I. Nuclear WC is a group of words where one element takes the superior position (becomes the main word). The element is not subordinate to any other element of the WC. Relations in this type of WC are based on the syntactic connection of subordination.
As for the type of subordination there are Regressive or Progressive WC.
1.1. Regressive WC: subordinate element is put on the left from the nucleus (e.g., new books; very young);
1.2. Progressive WC: subordinate element is put on the right from the nucleus (e.g., a book of poems; to see a man, to laugh heartily).
II. Nuclear-free WC is characterized by the absence of a nucleus (main, superior word in a group of words).
As for the need in the context (Sentence) there are two types of WC: Dependent and Independent:
2.1. Independent WC can be identified without additional context (e.g., red and green, ladies and gentlemen).
2.2. Dependent WC demands additional context to be identified as a syntactically organized combination (e.g., wise old (man); (to find) the car gone).
As for the morphological choice of words in WC there can be WC with the words belonging to on morphological class and the words belonging to different classes:
a) WC of one class: include the words of the same morphological part of speech (e.g., men, women, children; wise, old (man));
b) WC of different classes (e.g., his old (friend), (to see) him go).
As for the type of syntactic coordination of elements in WC there can be the following relations of the elements:
a) Relations of mutual dependency (e.g., he laughed);
b) Coordinative relations (e.g., red and green);
c) Accumulative relations (e.g., wise old (man)).
Examples of word-combinations (WC) are given in the tab. 7.2.
Table 7.2