Cognitive scenario of a categorical situation of causation of emotional modification (Based on the verb ugrozhat' ‘to threaten’)

Using the example of the emotive causative “to threaten,” the article examines the emotivecausative categorical semantic complex and the cognitive scenario that implements the specified verb. The analyzed categorical situation is a situation of causation of emotional modification. Emotive causatives that function in this complex are an example of semantic syncretism, since they combine two obligatory categorical semes in their meaning ‒ causativeness and emotivity ‒ and thereby, realize two categorical situations (the situation of causation and the emotional situation). Along with these two leading categorical situations, interaction with other categories can also occur in speech. Thus, related leading categories can involve, for example, intensity, instrumentality and evaluativeness. For the analyzed verb, the actualization of instrumentality is more frequent, and the interaction with the category of intensity is less frequent.