ANALYSIS OF OBJECTIVE ACTANTS OF VERBS OF EMOTIONAL REACTION OF THE RUSSIAN AND CHINESE LANGUAGES ON THE BASIS OF THE CORPUS

Abstract

Emotional reaction in Russian and Chinese verbs is an indicator of cultural collisions, value orientations, ideological concepts and the consequence of traditions, which forms the linguistic picture of the world of both peoples. Historical collisions affect the formation of languages, which is often reflected in emotive verbs, which act as mirrors of cultural, physiological, psycho-emotional and social attitudes prevailing in society. The objective actants of verbs that affect an object (the carrier or causer) are endowed with a certain inner emotional state or experience. The syntactic actant plays the role of a sentence member, whereas emotive verbs reflect an element of the situation in their semantics. Any member of the sentence can act as an actor (participant in the situation), filling in the semantic or syntactic valence of the verb. The carriers of the semantic role in this case are actors such as experimenter, patient, and agent, whereas causer has a hyper role and can be represented by agent, cause, and content. Animate subjects are most often used as objective semantic actors in both languages under study: transitive verbs prevail in Russian, whereas in Chinese they are most often divalent verbs that require at least two actors to form a complete sentence.