English Verbs with the meaning "emotional state in social activities": semantic and syntactical specifics

Abstract

The proposed research is devoted to the verbs of the emotional state (agonize, bemoan, complain, crave, deplore, despair, doubt, exult, fear, fret, grieve, lament, languish, long, marvel, mope, mourn, panic, pant, regret, rejoice, repent, revolt, stand, suffer, sulk, etc.). Their specificity is associated with the subject’s inner world, with his personal perception and conceptualization of environmental events. Such a subjective understanding of what is happening determines the presence of a complex semantic structure of the verbs under study.