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 Productive models are capable of generating open paradigms with an infinite number of elements.

Cat – cats; chair – chairs; figure – figures, etc. It is these models that determine the structural type (the strategy) of the language.

 Parts of speech are treated here as cognitive categories, i.e. prototypically referring to things (objects) as nouns do, or to qualities of objects (things) as adjectives, or referring to actions as verbs and qualities of actions as adverbs. If such meanings are associated with particular morphological markers, it is possible to speak about lexico-morphological nature of parts of speech as word-classes.

 Ch. WB; Ch. Kn; Ch. MC – from Chaucer G. Troilus and Cressida and the Canterbury Tales. Encyclopaedia Britannica. V. 22. USA, 1952

Beow – Beowulf with the Fight at Finnsburg / Rev. and enl. Ed. Wrenn C. L. London, 1958

VB. –The Vercelli Book Poems/ Ed. by F. Magoun. Cambridge, 1960

Chr – Plummer Ch. Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel with supplementary extracts from the others. V. 1-2. Oxford, 1899

Oros – King Alfred’s Orosius / Ed. by H. Sweet. London, 1883

 on embedded structures, see Petrova 2005

 vulgar speech — просторечье.