ADVERBIAL INTENSIFIERS IN SITUATION WITH EMOTIVE CAUSATIVES

In this article, the example of a causative situation actualizing the modification of the emotional state is used to consider semantic variants of expressing the meaning of intensification. The study is conducted from the viewpoint of functional grammar, particularly, semantic categories of intensification, causativeness, emotiveness and their intercategorial interaction. The category of intensification reflects the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the phenomenon which may be accompanied by estimated values. As a result, intensification increase serves to increase the expressive power of the utterance. Thus, in situations with emotive causations, we observe an example of intercategorial interaction of several categories: intensification, evaluation, expressiveness. The purpose of the paper is to identify and systematize adverb intensifiers relating to the expressive means of the language and implementing the function of enhanced influence on the addressee. The object of the analysis are aspects of intercategorial interaction. The focus of the current study are adverbial intensifiers in situations with emotive causatives. Methods of contextual analysis, definition and synonyms analysis, generalizing and interpretation are used to classify adverbial intensifiers in situations with emotive causatives. It is concluded that the intercategorical interaction of these categories is a tool for purposeful influence on the addressee of the utterance.