Componential structure of the typical word formation paradigm of adjectival essive verbs in -и-ти with the semantics of mental state of the subject

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of the stem-centered approach as an important direction in the development of Ukrainian derivatology. Its methods, techniques, mechanisms of systematization and description of factual material make it possible to achieve results ensuring a consistent, systematic study of the derivational potential of words – linguistic units of the different lingual levels. The proposed study focuses its attention on Ukrainian verbs of adjectival origin. They are divided into three structuralsemantic types – inchoatives, essives and causatives. Their derivational potential is different and it is significantly influenced by the categorical status of verbs belonging to these three structural-semantic types. Inchoatives, essives and causatives usually correlate with verbs of process, state and action accordingly, each case being characterized by its differential features. In addition to belonging to a certain part of speech, and thus to a structural-semantic type and lexical-semantic group, a considerable role in producing derivatives is played by the word-forming means. The structure and content of the typical word-formation paradigm of essive verbs of the Ukrainian language with the semantics of mental state of the subject formed with the suffix -y- are determined taking into account the wordformation paradigmatic principle of factual material systematization, relevant to the stem-centered approach. The word-formation paradigm of these base verbs comprises two zones – substantive and verbal, the componential structure of which is limited. This limitation is conditioned by a set of features characteristic of essives in -y-ty with the semantics of mental state of the subject: the part-of-speech status of the stem, belonging to the structuralsemantic type of essives, which correlates them with state verbs having differential signs of static character, temporal localization, special phaseness, passive role of the subject, word-forming means.