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word-group theory in Modern English Content Introduction

. Definition and general characteristics of the word-group

. Classification of word-groups

. Semantic features of word-groups

. Motivated and non-motivated word-groups

. Phraseological word-groups Introduction

is a branch of linguistics - the science of language. Lexicology as a branch of linguistics has its own aims and methods of scientific research. Its basic task - being a study and systematic description of vocabulary in respect to its origin, development and its current use. Lexicology is concerned with words, variable word-groups, phraseological units and morphemes which make up words.the object of the linguistic research within the frameworks of the lexicological analysis, word-groups draw much attention of different scientists at different stages of the research history.linguists as Shveitser, Arnold, Nikitin, Akhmanova, Marchenko, and many others devoted their research papers to the matter of the word-groups, their classification, semantic features, and other specific characteristics. They have contributed linguistic research with a number of works, connected with this lexical units. The matter of the word-group thorough study is topical with a glance at their specific features, some phraseological peculiarities and semantic-grammatical structure.above-mentioned aspects have predetermined our choice of the topic of the present report "The word-group theory in Modern English".object of the investigation are word-groups of Modern English.subject of the present report includes specific features and characteristics of word-groups.purpose of the report writing is to investigate word-groups functioning in the Modern English language.purporse of the report has predetermined the following tasks of the investigation:

to define the notion of the word-group and outline its general characteristics;

to suggest the classification of the word-group;

to consider semantic features of word-groups;

to characterize motivated and non-motivated word-groups;

to specify peculiar features of phraseological word-groups.practical value of the present report is performed by the possibility of using its materials for the further thorough study of this matter. 1. Definition and general characteristics of the word-group

word group is the simplest nonpredicative (as contrasted to the sentence) unit of speech. The word group is formed on a syntactic pattern and based on a subordinating grammatical relationship between two or more content words. This relationship may be one of agreement, government, or subordination. The grammatically predominant word is the main element of the word group, and the grammatically subordinated word the dependent element.word group denotes a fragment of extralinguistic reality. The word group combines formally syntactic and semantically syntactic features. Such features reveal the compatibility of grammatical and lexical meanings with the structure of the object-logical relations that these meanings reflect.groups may be free or phraseological. Free word groups are formed in accordance with regular and productive combinative principles; their meanings may be deduced from those of the component words.are a lot of definitions concerning the word-group. The most adequate one seems to be the following: the word-group is a combination of at least two notional words which do not constitute the sentence but are syntactically connected. According to some other scholars (the majority of Western scholars and professors B.Ilyish and V.Burlakova - in Russia), a combination of a notional word with a function word (on the table) may be treated as a word-group as well. The problem is disputable as the role of function words is to show some abstract relations and they are devoid of nominative power. On the other hand, such combinations are syntactically bound and they should belong somewhere.characteristics of the word-group are:

) As a naming unit it differs from a compound word because the number of constituents in a word-group corresponds to the number of different denotates: a black bird - чорний птах (2), a blackbird - дрізд (1);loud speaker (2), a loudspeaker (1).

) Each component of the word-group can undergo grammatical changes without destroying the identity of the whole unit: to see a house - to see houses.

) A word-group is a dependent syntactic unit, it is not a communicative unit and has no intonation of its own [4; p. 28]. . Classification of word-groups

groups can be classified on the basis of several principles:

According to the type of syntagmatic relations: coordinate (you and me), subordinate (to see a house, a nice dress), predicative (him coming, for him to come), According to the structure: simple (all elements are obligatory), expanded (to read and translate the text - expanded elements are equal in rank), extended (a word takes a dependent element and this dependent element becomes the head for another word: a beautiful flower - a very beautiful flower).

1) Subordinate word-groups.word-groups are based on the relations of dependence between the constituents. This presupposes the existence of a governingwhich is called the head and the dependent element which is called the adjunct (in noun-phrases) or the complement (in verb-phrases).to the nature of their heads, subordinate word-groups fall into noun-phrases (NP) - a cup of tea, verb-phrases (VP) - to run fast, to see a house, adjective phrases (AP) - good for you, adverbial phrases (DP) - so quickly, pronoun phrases (IP) - something strange, nothing to do.formation of the subordinate word-group depends on the valency of its constituents. Valency is a potential ability of words to combine. Actual realization of valency in speech is called combinability [6; p. 162-163].

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