Classifiers and Nouns of Genre Semantics in the Functional Aspect

Abstract

This article is devoted to the functioning of classifiers and nouns of genre semantics. These words are structural elements that designate subsumption relation and function as syntactic words in the positions of descriptions and predicates of taxonomic characterization. Though classifiers and nouns of genre semantics are similar in their positions it is necessary to distinguish them: classifiers are presented by nouns of characteristics, nouns of actions and also by certain object nouns that function as predicates, whereas nouns of genre semantics are represented by concrete object nouns that function more as identifying elements.