Emotive Causatives in German and Belarusian
The article deals with the similarities and differences between the German and Belarusian languages in the linguistic expression of causation of emotional states. It is revealed that in these two languages this type of causation is expressed with the help of lexical and syntactic emotive causatives which form three- and four-component causative constructions, respectively. Some peculiarities of the translation of emotive causatives from German into Belarusian are described: four-component constructions are often translated with the help of three-component ones; instead of transmitting the causation of the emotional state and using causative constructions for this purpose, the result of the subject’s influence on the object can be expressed with the help of reflexive verbs, predicative adverbs, nouns and some other ways.