Lecture 11 The Stative 1 Lexico-grammatical Morphological and

Lecture 11 The Stative 1. Lexico-grammatical, Morphological and Syntactic Features of the Stative. 2. The status of the Stative in the Morphological System of the Language. a) The Stative as a Separate Part of Speech. b)The Stative as a Subclass of the Adjective.

1. Lexico-grammatical, Morphological and Syntactic Features of the Stative. 1. Meaning: state of the noun referent. 2. Form: statives are marked by the prefix a 3. Function: a) predicative (the main function); e. g. The house is afire. b) objective predicative; e. g. He found the child asleep. c) attribute following the noun. e. g. A man alive to social interests.

2. The status of the Stative in the Morphological System of the Language. a) The Stative as a Separate Part of Speech Proponents: L. V. Scherba, V. V. Vinogradov, B. A. Ilyish et al. Arguments in favour of the part-of-speech status of the stative: 1. Semantic opposition to adjectives; 2. Specific prefix a-; 3. Statives do not possess the category of degrees of comparison; 4. Statives are opposed to adjectives on the basis of combinability.

b) The Stative as a Subclass of the Adjective Proponent: L. S. Barkhudarov Arguments on favour of the adjective-subclass status of the stative: 1. Basic meaning: property of a nounal referent (same as adjectives); 2. Many similarities in combinability with adjectives; 3. Lack of difference in functions; 4. Statives may occasionally be included into the category of comparison; 5. Quantitative considerations.