VERB GENDER AND VERB POLYSEMY: THE METHODOLOGICAL STEP OF THE STUDY

The problem of studying polysemous verbs is up-to-date, because the measure of the richness of both the language and the speech of each person is the ability to master the content side of the language. In terms of enriching students’ vocabulary, the ability to build speech, and acquiring solid knowledge of verbal and grammatical meanings, the correct choice of methods and ways of studying polysemous verbs is important. In this sense, we consider important the requirement of that choice and their perfect application methodically, because the verb has more grammatical features than all parts of speech. This circumstance makes it necessary to move from the observation of partial, separate features of the linguistic reality to the general, summary stage. Through this article, we aim to present several questions regarding the teaching of the topic “Verb gender and verb polysemy”, which will ensure the quality of the educational process, will contribute to the acquisition of relevant knowledge and skills of students. The concept of verb gender is directly related to the concept of verb meaning. In this case, we are dealing with broad lexical and grammatical meanings. As G. Sevak notes, “The literal meaning is the content expressed by each word, by which any object, feature, action, existence, etc. of nature, society and thinking is specified and named. Grammatical meaning is the content expressed by the independence of a single word or through different forms of the same word, by which the various relations of the given general or verbal meaning are specified”. The gender of the verb in modern Armenian is expressed through the contrasts formed by special genders and verbs compounded with them, such as: read-to be read, to hear-to be heard, to rise-to raise-to be raised, etc. In modern Armenian, three genders of the verb are distinguished: active, passive and neutral. Passive verbs indicate an action that passes from the subject to the subordinate, the subordinate carries the action on himself (to be loved, read, built, etc.). Accusative verbs are formed from passive verbs with suffix v. Verbs of passive gender require the complement of an indirect subject, placed in the exclusive, sometimes in the active case. Verbs of the neutral gender indicate an action for which neither the subject nor the subject carries the action (smiling, combing, dwelling, etc.).