Abstract

The article investigates the variation of full word-forms and empty word-forms in the English language. Having investigated a lot of linguistic sources the author gives the explanation to them. Firstly, the author investigates the meanings of words. She considers words to be ambiguous notions both in everyday speech and in linguistics. As linguists claim words may be considered as forms whether spoken or written, or as composite expressions which have form and meaning. Then basing on linguistic sources the author gives the classes of word-forms in English: full forms and empty forms. The author investigates the differences between the two classes. She states that empty word-forms differ grammatically and semantically from full-words.

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