Lecture 3 parts of speech

2. The main notional parts of speech and their characteristics.

• The features of the pronoun: 1) the categorial meaning of indication (deixis); 2) the narrow sets of various status with the corresponding formal properties of categorial changeability and word-building; 3) the substantival and adjectival functions for different sets.

2. The main notional parts of speech and their characteristics.

• The features of the verb: 1) the categorial meaning of process (presented in the two upper series of forms, respectively, as finite process and non-finite process); 2) the forms of the verbal categories of person, number, tense, aspect, voice, mood; the opposition of the finite and non-finite forms; 3) the function of the finite predicate for the finite verb; the mixed verbal — other than verbal functions for the non-finite verb.

2. The main notional parts of speech and their characteristics.

• The features of the adverb: 1) the categorial meaning of the secondary property, i.e. the property of process or another property; 2) the forms of the degrees of comparison for qualitative adverbs; the specific suffixal forms of derivation; 3) the functions of various adverbial modifiers.

3. The main functional parts of speech and their characteristics

• The article expresses the specific limitation of the substantive functions.
• The preposition expresses the dependencies and interdependences of substantive referents.
• The conjunction expresses connections of phenomena.
• The interjection, occupying a detached position in the sentence, is a signal of emotions.

3. The main functional parts of speech and their characteristics

• The particle unites the functional words of specifying and limiting meaning. To this series, alongside of other specifying words, should be referred verbal postpositions as functional modifiers of verbs, etc.