Ибероамериканские тетради (Sep 2016)
Semantic peculiarities of the verbs in the syntactic constructions used to describe emotional states in Spanish
Abstract
This article is dedicated to investigation of the syntactic constructions describing emotional state of a person in Spanish: constructions with verba sentiendi, constructions with change of the empathy, causative constructions. These constructions have a determinate semantic structure which includes a predicate name of emotion and a verb. Different classifications of the verbs used in the above mentioned syntactic constructions are expounded and their semantic peculiarities are analysed in the article.
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