Emotive causatives in Russian

Syutkina N.

The author dwells upon causative verbs that actualize emotional modification. The aim of the article is the systematizing of emotive causatives in the Russian language that actualize positive emotional modification. The subject of the analysis are the peculiarities of emotve verbs functioning in causative situations. The object of the analysis is their functional potential. The verbs of the Russian language taken from dictionaries are used as the material for the research. Methods used are: hypothetical and deductive method; contextual analysis.

Keywords:functional and semantic category, semantic variant, causative verb, causative situation, causativity, emotional modification, emotive causative