THE DYNAMICS OF SEMANTIC-DERIVATIONAL SUBSYSTEM OF EMOTIVE VERBS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

This article is devoted to the description of the interdependence of the derivational and semantic subsystems of verbs with the seme ‘emotions’ in the Russian language. Investigation of the derivational potential of emotive predicates depending on semantic features is an important area of word-formation, as it demonstrates the implementation of the system status of the units under study. The paper describes the nuclear-peripheral structure of the lexical-semantic group of emotive verbs, in accordance with which the derivational process is organized: the volume of the derivational paradigm of the producing verb unit is reduced with the distance of emotive lexemes from the nucleus, i.e. with the appearance of metaphor in the structure of their semantic field. It should be noted that the semantic-derivational interdependence of the class of emotive verbs in the process of word formation is realized by the dependence of the quantitative and qualitative composition of derived units on a positive or negative assessment of the emotional state expressed by the predicate.