ON SEMANTIC VARIABILITY OF FRENCH ADJECTIVES DESCRIBING HUMAN TEMPERAMENTAL ATTRIBUTES
The paper concentrates on a complex bidirectional analysis of transitive use particularities of modern French adjectives on the utterance surface and deep levels. The common patterns of deep level actantial structures manifestation in the syntactic surface structures are studied through the example of adjectives describing temperamental attributes. The degree of mutual conditionality of semantic variation of a lexeme as a part of a transitive adjective construction and the degree of variation in actantial and role structure of described situation are analyzed. The study covers eventual constraints exercised by some predicate adjectives on the categorical features of their immediate lexical environment on the surface level. The paper deals also with observance and non-observance cases of such constraints and specifies the crucial role of lexical semantics interaction of certain language units on the speech line.