LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF THE WORD HAPPINESS, LUCK AND JOY IN ENGLISH

Abstract

Happiness is a popular daily topic and may be expressed in different ways of which no less important than others is utilizing linguistics items. In English, there are a lot of words and idioms denoting happiness which draw the author's attention. In this article, she discusses the most widely used English word denoting happiness - 'happy' in terms of grammar first and semantics later. Its grammatical features include syntactic functions and morphological features, and the semantics includes lexical meaning, synonyms, antonyms, collocations and idioms of which ‘happy’ is a component. Some suggestions in teaching and learning the word are finally provided in the article.