FUNCTIONAL TRANSPOSITION OF ‘AROUND’ AND ‘ROUND’ IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
FUNCTIONAL TRANSPOSITION OF ‘AROUND’ AND ‘ROUND’ IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: The research studies the process of functional transposition of the lexical units ‘around’ and ‘round’, which function in English as both adverbs and prepositions. It is proved that the category of the adverb was the initial one and served as the basis for their functional transposition into the category of the preposition. It is hypothesized that, despite representing a range of common meanings and being characterized by a common morphological structure, ‘around’ and ‘round’ have followed different developmental pathways and their transpositional patterns are distinctive as well.

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