Semantics of desire and speech usage of the verb "to wish"
Semantics of desire and speech usage of the verb «to wish» Semantics of desire as the motive of all voluntary actions of the subject is described and speech functions of the verb «to wish» forming together with the verb «to want» the nuclear couple in which the lexical dominant features of correspondent synonymic series are distributed is studied. It is established that functions creating its stylistic markedness and functions indicating social status of communicators are specific to this verb.