Verbs of pain in the light of grammar of constructions

Constructions with predicates from the semantic zone of pain are considered from a typological perspective. A characteristic feature of this field is its lexeme composition: the major portion of it is formed by verbs borrowed from other semantic fields. A brief review of the fields-sources for pain verbs is given and morphological and syntactical mechanisms of the borrowing of original predicates in the zone of pain are analyzed. The study shows that the semantic shift includes not only the change of the lexical meaning proper, but also the restructuring of paradigmatic and syntactic mechanisms of the borrowed unit, which occurs under influence of constructions with participation of original predicates of pain.