The Functions of the Stative:

1. as the predicative

2. as an attribute, though a post positional attribute (E.g. man alive)

The statives in many respects are like adjectives.

Conclusion: the Stative belongs to the class of adjectives. It makes up a subclass of its own within the class of adjectives.

18WORD AND MORPHEME

In studying the morpheme we actually study the word in the necessary details of its composition and functions.

It is very difficult to give a universal definition to the word.This difficulty is explained by the fact that the word is extremely complex and many-sided phenomenon.With in the framework of different lingustic trends and theories the word is defined as the minimal free linguistic form, the elementary component of the sentence, the articulate sound with meaning,the meaningfully integral and immediately identifable lingual unit,etc.

American scholars -representatives of Descriptive Linguistics founded by L.Bloomfield-recognized not the word and the sentence, but the phoneme and the morpheme as the basic categories of linguistic description,because these units are the easiest to be isolated in the continual text one to their "physically"minimal,

Summing up what has been said in this paragraph we may point out that that the morpheme is a meaningful segmental component of the word;the morpheme is formed by phonemes; as a meaningful component of the word it is elementary.

In grammar, we are of course concertned with the grammatical or structural,meaning of morphemes.We do not here study the meaning ofthe root morphemes,which are necessarily lexical,and as to derivation morphemes,which serve to build words.We are only interested in themin so far as they are grammatically relevant and that is the case if they show that the word belongs to acertain part of speech,and if they serve to distinguish one part of speech from another.This ghrammatical significance of derivation morphemesis always combined with their lexical meaning.If we take a pair of

words:write-verb writer-noun.

The derivation morpheme "-r"a grammatical significance as it serves to distinguish a noun from a verb,it has its lexical meaning,as the lexical meaning of the noun "writer" is different from that of the verb "write" Inflection morphemes have no lexical meaning of function. Ther is no difference in the way of lexical meaning between "live and lived" "house and houses".However an inflection morpheme can acquire a lexical meaning,which the singular form has not;the plural form "colours"has a meaning,"flag",which the singular form 'colours"has a meaning,"flag",which the singular form "colour" has not.Together with other nominative units,the word is used for the formation of the sentence;the sentence is a unit of informationin the ocmmunicative process.

In traditional grammar the study of the morphemic structure of the word was conducted in the light of the two basic criteria:

1. positinal (the location of the marginal morphemes in relation to the central ones).

2. Semantic or functional (correlative contributionof the morphemes to the general meaning of the word) .The combination of these two criteria in an integral description hasled to the rational classification of morphemes,that is widely used both in research linguistic work and in practical lingual tuition.