VERBS AMAR AND QUERER IN SPANISH: DIFFERENCES IN SEMANTICS AND SPECIFICS OF USING

Abstract

The present study is an attempt at a comprehensive linguistic description of the verbs amar and querer in Spanish, implemented at different levels of analysis: conceptual, semasiological, pragmatic, and grammatical-syntactic. The choice of these verbs as the subject of research is because, in the Russian language, there are no special equivalents for each of these verbs, which causes difficulties in their use by students of Spanish as a foreign language. As a result of the analysis, the semasiological dominants of the conceptual field of the Spanish verbs amar and querer are identified, which makes it possible to differentiate their semantics and, therefore, to use them correctly in speech. In addition, the syntagmatic connections of these verbs are established, which are realized in the specifics of their lexical-grammatical distribution. Considering these features allows to avoid lexical and grammatical errors based on these verbs, and also helps to increase the efficiency of communication with native Spanish speakers.