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.

Keywords

• синтаксические конструкции
• verbum sentiendi
• экзистенциальный глагол
• кау-зативный глагол
• предикатное имя эмоции
• construciones sintácticas
• verbum sentiendi
• verbo existencial
• verbo causativo
• nombre predicativo de la emoción
• syntactic constructions
• verbum sentiendi
• existential verb
• causative verb
• predicate name of emotion