General linguistics
Published 2017-02-27
Keywords
- zoophones,
- semantic structure,
- nuclear and optional semes,
- acoustic characteristics
Abstract
The peculiarities of semantic structure of verbs-zoophones are characterized, nuclear and optional components of their meaning are exposed, the dependence of combinative potential of the verb lexes upon their semantics is established in the article. Components that correlate with objective features of the existence of sound as natural phenomena (loudness, pitch of tone, duration) are defined in semantic structure of zoophones.