FUNCTIONING AND TRANSFORMATION OF EMOTIONAL LEXEME НAPPINESS IN THE MODERN UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

There is a suffi cient number of research works devoted to the study of lexical-grammatical features of emotional
lexeme happiness in linguistics. But today the question of the functioning and transposition of this lexeme has not been
fully studied in the modern Ukrainian language.
In the article, by means of the analysis of the defi nitions of happiness in the academic Dictionary of the Ukrainian
language, the Etymological dictionary, and Dictionary of synonyms, a description of the conceptual features of this
lexeme is given, grammatical features are determined, and its transposition phenomena are analyzed in the system of
the Ukrainian language.
Lexical and grammatical features of the lexeme happiness are the same as in other abstract nouns, but similar use
of the word, typical for nouns, is not limited by its functioning. Lexeme happiness can be used as an adverb, as a cry
and a word inserted.
The lexeme happiness has a wide distributional opportunities: the noun happiness + noun; noun happiness + adjective;
verb + happiness, where the noun happiness acts as the object of action or state (a part of such word combinations
is stable in its composition and structure, lexically indivisible and integral in terms of the meaning of the word combination,
which have the function of separate lexeme, so they function as idioms in the modern Ukrainian language).
The grammatical transformation of the analyzed word has affected not only at the loss of its original meaning, but
also its compatibility with other words.