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“Content words”:

- Names of entities (persons and things)o Common names:

Persons Things, concrete, general Things, concrete, speci c Things, a stract

o Proper names- Names of processes (action, e!ents, etc")

o #oing and happeningo $ensing and sayingo %eing and ha!ing

- Names of &'alities:o !al'ati!e ( ea'tif'l, famo's)o moti!e (attached, intimately, personal, national

ord classes can e !iewed *from a o!e*: which means, semantically" (No'nsrefer typically to identities, !er s to processes+" $o on)

r from ro'nd a o't, at their own le!el" The relationships into witch they enter:

Paradigmically: the options that are open to them

$intagmatically: the company they eep

.) $yntagmatic/le0ical 1collocation2

The meas're of collocation is determined:

The pro a ility of a word 1le0ical item2 increases eca'se of the presence ofanother word 1node2 within a speci ed range 1span2"

Th's:

Collocational patterns contri 'te signi cantly to the 'nfolding meaning of ate0t"

3) $yntagmatic/grammatical 1str'ct're2

$yntagms 4 an organi5ed/fre&'ent/patroni5ing se&'ence of grammaticalclasses"

“The significance of such a syntagm is that here it is the realization of a structure : an organic configurationof elements, which we can analyse in functional terms.”

6n oth we canesta lish le0icalrelationships (thecompany they eep,and grammatical

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