Эцюды да класіфікацыі дзеяслова: Гісторыя праблемы, катэгорыі, таксоны і карэляцыі
Studies on verb classification: History of the problem, categories, taxa and correlations

Summary/Abstract: One of the most confusing sections of grammar has been and remains the verb classes, Slavic in general and Belarusian in particular. Throughout the 19th–20th centuries almost every linguist, addressing this issue, proposed his own version, and as a result, a convention for the numerical nomination of classes and the definition of their boundaries did not emerge. In the article the problem of verb classes is revealed taking into account their semantics, which manifests itself in the morphology and derivational valence of taxa. The object of the study was the complete corpus of Belarusian verbs, presented in the relevant lexicographic works and the Belarusian segment of the Internet. The peculiarity of the proposed approach also lies in the fact that the author of the article abandoned the numerical nomination of verb classes and turned to verbal nomination, taking into account the qualitative characteristics of each taxon. To do this, the author had to bring together the concept of class with aspectual problems, namely with the aktionsart of the verb, which are studied by functional grammar. When describing the categorical content of taxa, the author for the first time applied to the Belarusian verb the category of version, which includes not only the concept of transitivity / intransitivity, but also such subject-object relations as centrifugali ty / centripetality action, reachability / unattainability. To nominate taxa, both generally accepted terms and author’s ones were used, for example, “illuminative” or “mediational” verbs. The article outlines a brief history of the issue, compares methods for classifying verbs, both formal and semantic, defines the categorical apparatus, outlines a complete set of taxa to be described, and describes the most representative classes of verbs: stative and

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