Open AccessSemantic peculiarities of the verbs in the syntactic constructions used to describe emotional states in Spanish
Author(s) -
Natalia A. Mijeeva
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
iberoamerikanskie tetradi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2658-5219
pISSN - 2409-3416
DOI - 10.46272/2409-3416-2016-3-79-88
Subject(s) - predicate (mathematical logic) , linguistics , verb , syntactic structure , semantic change , computer science , causative , semantic property , natural language processing , syntactic predicate , artificial intelligence , psychology , syntax , philosophy , programming language
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. Dierent classications of the verbs used in the above mentioned syntactic constructions are expounded and their semantic peculiarities are analysed in the article.