VERB
MEANING: temporal property
SYNTACTIC FUCTIONS:
COMBINATILY WITH:
adverbs
adjectives
nouns
notional verbs predicates
auxiliary
aspectual
modal
copular
MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE:
simple (ask)
derived (dislike)
compound (browbeat)
phrasal verbs (find out)
MORPHOLOGICAL CATEGORIES:
number
mood
person
tense
aspect
phase
voice
posteriority
3 BASIC FORMS:
past indefinite
participle II
infinitive
Notional verbs
- full lexical meaning
- form a simple verbal predicate
Semi-notional
- aspectual verbs + verbs with a modal shade of meaning
- make part of a compound verbal aspective or modal predicate:
Functional verbs
- weaken, lose their lexical meaning, retain the grammatical meanings
Copular verbs
Modal
Auxiliary verbs
- form part of a predicate
Terminative verbs an action with a limit (come,bring, stop)
Non-terminative verbs no limit (go, sleep, exist)
Verbs of double nature
Transitive verbs a direct object
Intransitive verbs no direct object