SEMANTIC FEATURES OF THE CAUSATIVE EMOTIVE "TO INTEREST" (GRADUAL ASPECT)
The semantics of causality has a complex system of means of expression, including shades of condition, purpose, cause, effect, emotional state, concessions. The shade of an indefinite, implicit reason is introduced by a combination with an indefinite pronoun for some reason. The causative emotive "to interest' contains the semantics of the emotional state, which constitutes the lexical meaning; causal semantics, manifested in the sentence. The primary is the semantics of the emotional state, the secondary is the causal meaning, which often manifests itself in the context. It is the 'emotional state' component that makes it possible to state the susceptibility to the grading process, that is, to indicate a greater or lesser degree of manifestation of a feature. Thanks to the analysis of examples, it is possible to build gradation scales on which all means are visible (adverbs of measure and degree very, strongly, especially, completely, extremely, terribly; particles not, nor, already), allowing to trace the degree of manifestation of a feature.