Verbs with the Meaning ‘Change Facial Expression to Denoting Negative Emotions’ in Dictionary of Dialect Speaker

Abstract

The material for the article was the author’s dictionary of a resident of the Ust-Tsilemsky district of the Komi Republic. The author of the article dwells on the characteristics of the verbs grouped on the basis of a common meaning ‘to change a neutral facial expression to denoting negative emotions’. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that the considered group of dialectal verbs has not previously attracted the attention of researchers. The author notes that the form of the headword of the verbs in the author’s dictionary is conditioned both by the structure of a person’s memory and by their very lexical meaning, which contains a qualitative shade of perfect meaning. It is emphasized that the verbs are either not recorded in “professional” dialectal dictionaries, or their other meanings are noted in them. The author proceeds from the fact that dictionaries compiled by non- professional lexicographers are valuable in determining the lexical composition of a dialect and clarifying the meanings of dialectisms. It is concluded that the verbs of this group are differently active in the memory of the dialect speaker: the word istravitsya is recorded in the vocabulary variants several times and turns out to be used for a large number of situations, other lexemes turn out to be less frequent and more specific in their relevance to the described circumstances. It has been proven that verbs have a transparent inner form, including specially described motivational features of words that are thematically related to the means of one code — culinary and gastronomic.