Emotive causative verbs: the problem of defining

The article deals with German emotive causative verbs, expressing interpersonal relation interaction, the result of which is a change in the psychological and emotional state of a person who is an object of causation. The research is based on the semantic analysis of the three groups of verbs, those causing positive, negative and neutral emotions of the object of causation. On the basis of synonymous correlations we make an attempt of revealing the semantic fields of the basic emotive causative verbs in German.