Semantic structure aspects of emotion verbs in Azerbaijan Turkish

Abstract

As a subclass of mental verbs, emotion verbs are verbs expressing the activity of the mind to be under the influence of an emotion or emotions such as sadness, fear, disgust, pleasure, love, surprise, shame, anger in other words, the processes of being "emotional". In today's linguistics studies, it can be stated that since the verbs are in the executive position in the sentence, it is seen as a prerequisite to determine the members that the verbs can coexist with due to their meanings and the semantic relationship of these members with the verbs in question so that they can be understood more accurately within the semantic verb category they belong to. The aim of this study is to present the semantic structure aspects of emotion verbs in Azerbaijan Turkish. For this reason, first of all, the conceptual framework of emotion verbs in linguistics studies in Turkey and in the world was evaluated, and then the semantic roles of emotion verbs in Azerbaijan Turkish were determined in the light of case grammar. Experiential, content and stimulus have been adopted as the basic semantic roles in the semantic structure of emotion verbs. It has been determined that emotion verbs in Azerbaijan Turkish exhibit five different semantic structures consisting of these semantic roles. This study, which describes the semantic features of emotion verbs, is also a new classification for emotion verbs in Azerbaijan Turkish. It is thought that this research will contribute to fields such as lexicology, logology, syntax and teaching Azerbaijan Turkish, as well as verb classification studies.