STRUCTURAL PECULIARITIES OF RUSSIAN, ENGLISH AND TATAR VERBS DENOTING HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

Abstract. Verbs occupy a central place among the wide range of language units representing human behaviour. This article presents the results of analysis of the structural features of behavioural verbs in three languages (Russian, Tatar and English). The study of the semantics of behavioural verbs is impossible without resorting to their structural organization. In this study the author analyzed 608 behavioural verbs of in the Russian language, 358 verbs in the Tatar language, 420 verbs in the English language. During the research the following methods were used: the component analysis method, the context analysis method, the descriptive method and the comparative-contrastive method. The author concludes that verbs of behaviour in the Russian, Tatar and English languages are not uniform: they include both simple and compound verbal units in the presence of a general invariant seme ‘to behave’. Such a study is necessary to understand the similarities and differences in the formation of behavioural semantics in these languages, as well as to identify the interlingual equivalents of behavioural verbs in the structurally different languages. Keywords: verb of behaviour, verb structure, verb semantics, derivational meaning of suffixes, synthetic verb, analytic verb, auxiliary verb, phrasal verb.