ANALYSIS OF MOTIVATION OF EMOTIVE LEXICAL UNITS DENOTING MADNESS
Abstract
The meaning of the word can be motivated by its morphemic components or by the way the word itself is formed. In other words, the semantic specifics of this or that word are in most cases due to the particularities of its wordformation. However, the word motivation reflects not only the correlation between morphemic components and semantic specifics, but also the correlation between extraand intralinguistic factors in word structure.
The paper aims to present a study of the motivation of words and reduplicative compounds with the meaning of madness, which is the novelty of the present research. The main objective is to classify the units according to the type of motivation and to determine which type prevails. To achieve the objective a thorough analysis of words’ inner structure was carried out. The outcome of the research showed that the semantic motivation in nonreduplicative words and rhymeand ablaut-motivated words are the most frequent types of motivation in the words denoting madness.
About the Author
L. V. Markelova
Pskov State University
Russian Federation
Liana V. Markelova – post-graduate student, Assistant Lecturer at the Department English Language
Russian Federation
Liana V. Markelova – post-graduate student, Assistant Lecturer at the Department English Language
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Markelova L.V. ANALYSIS OF MOTIVATION OF EMOTIVE LEXICAL UNITS DENOTING MADNESS. SibScript. 2014;(1-2):139-142. (In Russ.)
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