Verbal Incorporation: Economy VS Redundancy (in Russian, German and French)
The article considers the phenomenon of semantic verbal incorporation that reflects the existence of close relation between the semantics of a verb lexeme and the semantico-syntactical structure of a sentence. The author focuses on English, German and French verbs with incorporated adverbial surface structure elements, precisely on those incorporating adverbials of manner. As a result of semantic incorporation the surface syntactical structure is compressed due to the elimination of adverbial components from the sentence and their incorporation in the lexical meaning of the verb. Thus semantic verbal in corporation demonstrates the universal tendency towards linguistic economy while the explication of incorporated elements serves as a manifestation of linguistic redundancy.