Lexical-semantic features of non-actional verbs in French youth slang
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The purpose of the study is to identify the lexical-semantic features of non-actional verbs in French youth slang. The article provides a brief overview of publications addressing the issue under consideration. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that, for the first time, a multidimensional classification of non-actional verbs has been developed and statistically verified based on French youth slang, encompassing their semantic, motivational, and axiological characteristics. The empirical database comprises approximately 200 linguistic units recorded in dictionaries of non-standard French vocabulary. The findings demonstrate that non-actional verbs and verb phrases are distributed across five semantic types, which, according to their quantitative proportions, form a field structure with core, intermediate, and peripheral zones. In terms of their type of motivation, the units under consideration fall into two groups: verbs with relative motivation and verbs with semantic motivation. An analysis of evaluative meaning has established that the slang worldview is characterized by the predominance of negative axiology, the subjective nature of nomination, and the dominance of emotional evaluation over rational evaluation.
Source: Philology Theory & Practice
Author: Evgenii Alekseevich Khomiakov
Institution: Penza State University
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7204803853