Adjectives as Notional Part
CONTENTS
I. Introduction.......................................................................2 II. Semantic, Morphological and Syntactic Properties………………………………………………...3 1. Semantic Properties…………………………………..3 2. Morphological Properties…………………………….4 1. Base adjectives………………………………….4 2. Derived adjectives………………………………5 3. Compound adjectives…………………………...6 4. Degrees of comparison………………………….8 3. Syntactic Properties………………………………….10 III. Subclasses of adjectives………………………………...12 1. Relative adjectives……………………………………12 2. Qualitative adjectives………………………………....13 3. Substantivized adjectives……………………………..14 4. Statives………………………………………………..15 IV. Conclusion ……………………………………………....17 V. Practical Part …………………………………………...19 VI. Bibliography……………………………………………..21 VII. Appendix…………………………………………………22
INTRODUCTION
The whole of the English vocabulary is subdivided into eleven parts of speech; in point of fact, eight of them are notional words which make up the largest part of the vocabulary and five are "function words", comparatively few in actual number of items, but used very frequently. Adjectives are the third major class of words in English, after nouns and verbs, that’s why I think that this part of speech is merited detailed consideration. Thus the purpose of my coursework is to examine the adjectives as the notional part of speech. An adjective is a word which expresses the attributes of substances (good, young, easy, soft, loud, hard, wooden, and flaxen).
As a class of lexical words adjectives are identified by their ability to fill the position between noun-determiner and noun and the position after a copula-verb and a qualifier.
As the other parts of speech adjective has: 1. Special meaning (semantic properties); 2. Form (morphological properties); 3. Function (syntactic
I. Introduction.......................................................................2 II. Semantic, Morphological and Syntactic Properties………………………………………………...3 1. Semantic Properties…………………………………..3 2. Morphological Properties…………………………….4 1. Base adjectives………………………………….4 2. Derived adjectives………………………………5 3. Compound adjectives…………………………...6 4. Degrees of comparison………………………….8 3. Syntactic Properties………………………………….10 III. Subclasses of adjectives………………………………...12 1. Relative adjectives……………………………………12 2. Qualitative adjectives………………………………....13 3. Substantivized adjectives……………………………..14 4. Statives………………………………………………..15 IV. Conclusion ……………………………………………....17 V. Practical Part …………………………………………...19 VI. Bibliography……………………………………………..21 VII. Appendix…………………………………………………22
INTRODUCTION
The whole of the English vocabulary is subdivided into eleven parts of speech; in point of fact, eight of them are notional words which make up the largest part of the vocabulary and five are "function words", comparatively few in actual number of items, but used very frequently. Adjectives are the third major class of words in English, after nouns and verbs, that’s why I think that this part of speech is merited detailed consideration. Thus the purpose of my coursework is to examine the adjectives as the notional part of speech. An adjective is a word which expresses the attributes of substances (good, young, easy, soft, loud, hard, wooden, and flaxen).
As a class of lexical words adjectives are identified by their ability to fill the position between noun-determiner and noun and the position after a copula-verb and a qualifier.
As the other parts of speech adjective has: 1. Special meaning (semantic properties); 2. Form (morphological properties); 3. Function (syntactic