THE FEATURE SET OF ENGLISH VERBS MEANING REALIZATION OF A VOLITIONAL ACTION

Abstract

The article analyzes the basic semantic properties of factor intentional verbs meaning realization of a volitional action. The author singles out a number of such semantic components on the levels of hypersemes (general properties within a semantic group) and hyposemes (specific properties of certain verbs). Thus, among the former there are such properties as “intentionality” and “factor” that unite all lexical units meaning intention. The hyperseme “result”, in its turn, unites all units meaning realization. On the level of the hyposeme “result type”, the article describes three sub-groups of the semantic group “realization”: success, failure, avoidance / abstention. The hyposemes “mentality”, “method”, “reason”, “will” differentiate all the verbs within the semantic group in question, forming their semantic individuality. The author makes use of the methods of definition and text analysis. The resultant data prove that the verbs in question are semantically unique and can be viewed as an independent vocabulary sector.

Keywords

• intention
• volitional vocabulary
• factor verbs
• verbs of realization
• volitional action