Lecture 6 The vocabulary of n language as a System (continued)

2. Traditional lexicological grouping.

Lexicogrammatical groups. Word-families.

A lexico-grarnmatical group is a class of words which have a common lexico-grammatical meaning, common paradigm, the same substituting elements and possible characteristic set of suffixes rendering the lexico-grammatical meaning. These groups are subsets of the parts of speech, several lexico-grammatical groups constitute one part of speech. Thus English nouns are subdivided approximately into the following lexico-grammatical groups: personal names, animal names, collective names ( for people), collective names (for animals), abstract nouns, material nouns, object nouns, proper names for people, toponymic names.

Another traditional lexicological grouping is known as word-families in which the words are grouped according to the root-morpheme, for example: dog, doggish, doglike, doggy, to dog, dogged, doggedly, doggedness, dog-days, dog-biscuit, dogcart, etc.