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3. Words of the category of state (statives or adlinks)
In Modern English there exists a certain class of words such as asleep, alive, afloat, which is characterized by:

1. 
   The lexico-grammatical meaning of "state". He is asleep = He is in a state of sleep.
   
2. 
   The productive prefix a-: swim - aswim, shiver - ashiver, etc.
   
3. 
   Peculiar combinability: words of this class are associated almost exclusively with link-verbs: to be alive, to fall asleep, to be adrift, etc.
   

4. The main syntactic function of a predicative complement.
Therefore, in the sentence they are used in the function of the
predicative member of the compound nominal predicate (предикативний член складеного iivieHHoro присудка), the objective predicative member, as well as a postpositive attribute. These words are never used as pre-positive attributes.
As we know, a class of words united by such features may be regarded as a separate part of speech. B.O. Ilyish has called it "a category of state" by analogy with a similar class of words in the Russian language. Compare: мне было приятно, грустно, обидно, where the last three words ending in -o denote different states and are associated with link-verbs. V.V. Vinogradov, for example, calls them "words of the category of state", though many linguists object to their being considered a separate part of speech. Other Russian linguists B. Khaimovich and B. Rogovskaya use a handier term "adlinks" on the analogy of adverbs. English adlinks do not have grammatical categories [24; 199-202].
The peculiar feature of the Ukrainian language concerning the state expression is the fact that here the state is represented as something closer to the action and is rendered with the help of words, meant to express the action, that is verbs. It becomes obvious if we compare the following examples [5; 104-105]:
The air was agleam with diamonds. Повтря сняло д1амантами.
She was astir. Бона заворушилася.