ON SYSTEMATICITY OF LEXICAL COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE OF LEXICO-SEMANTIC GROUP OF ENGLISH VERBS WITH MEANING OF QUANTITATIVE CHANGE
The article views a systematic and structural approach to the study of lexical group of English verbs of quantitative change. The work reveals a particular character of hierarchy within the group of verbs of changing as well as graded distributional analysis of verbs. The research describes semantic and syntactical characteristics of modern English verbs united into one thematic group under the common compound concept of “quantitative change” (“increasing” and “decreasing”). The analysis reveals a character of semantic relations within the thematic group and makes it possible to systematize the verbs into two lexical-semantic groups, as well as into sets of synonyms and antonyms.