THE CATEGORY OF MEASURE: PECULIARITIES OF REPRESENTATION IN MODERN ENGLISH
The article deals with the peculiarities of expressing the category of ‘measure’ in Modern English, which possesses a large gamut of various measures and classifiers, e. g. container measures, group classifiers, mensural classifiers, etc. To gain a better insight into the systemic peculiarities of the conceptual category of ‘measure’ the revealed linguistic means have been gathered into certain groups, which form the structure of the functional-semantic field representing the category under discussion. The core of the field is formed by the terms of the metric system of measurements and the traditional units of measure used in English-speaking countries. Of special interest are evaluative (inaccurate and/ or unspecified) measures, representing the peripheral zones of the above-mentioned category.
Keywords: category of measure, classifier, accurate measurement, traditional system of measures, evaluative measurement, functional-semantic field
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Issue: 4, 2015
Series of issue: Issue 4
Rubric: GERMANIC LANGUAGES
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