LANGUAGE REPRESENTATION OF THE FRAME “CHOICE” IN MODERN FRENCH

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the study of the frame “choice” in French. The authors use the method of frame analysis. A frame is a situation that has a specific structure and components. Obligatory components are: subject, predicate, object. Facultative components are criterion, result, out of frame. The subject of research is verbs and adjectival constructions that have the meaning of choice in their definitions. These units are allocated by means of the analysis of definitions in dictionaries. They are assigned to the core and near periphery of the frame. For a detailed analysis of the components, the authors highlight syntactic constructions formed by nuclear verbs. The authors come to the conclusion that the differences in the semantics of verbs are seen in the content of the frame components in a certain context.