THE INFLUENCE OF THE SUBJECT AND OBJECT FEATURES ON THE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIZATION OF THE ENGLISH VERBS OF TOUCH

THE INFLUENCE OF THE SUBJECT AND OBJECT FEATURES ON THE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIZATION OF THE ENGLISH VERBS OF TOUCH

Author:  O.V. Fedotova

Abstract:  The article is devoted to the ability of the English verbs of touch to be combined with various types of subjects and objects that testifies to their functional heterogeneity and the fact that they can be variously understood from the point of view of their functional or grammatical categorization.

Keywords:  functional categorization, grammatical categorization, English verbs of touch, subject of touch, object of touch, touch predicate.

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Pages:  346-351