POSITIVE EMOTIONS AND PREDICATES: THE JOY Cover Image

ПОЛОЖИТЕЛНИ ЕМОЦИИ И ПРЕДИКАТИ: ЗА ВЕСЕЛИЕТО
POSITIVE EMOTIONS AND PREDICATES: THE JOY

Author(s): Yovka Tisheva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: emotion verbs; psych verbs; argument realization; thematic roles; experiencer

Summary/Abstract: The main topic of this study is the syntactic realization of predicates denoting positive emotions. The analyses of the argument structure of predicates naming elements of cognitive scenario of joy and semantic roles assign by these predicates are presented. Examples with causative verbs veselya (rejoice; make someone happy), abavlyavam and medial reflexive veselya se (amuse), zabavlyavam se (have fun), presenting their argument structure and positions in which the arguments are realized (as an external or internal argument) are discussed. Despite the similarity in lexical semantics, the verbs studied have different syntactic realizations, as they belong to different semantic (ontological) classes.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: XXXV
  • Page Range: 90-121
  • Page Count: 31
  • Language: Bulgarian