EmCat-Eng: A catalogue of 1,759 basic emotion terms in English

Abstract This study investigates the lexicalization patterns of six basic constructs emotion in English: anger , disgust fear joy sadness and surprise . These words, along with all their synonyms noun, verb, adjective forms were recorded supplied corpus frequency data. The resulting catalogue terms English was analyzed. categories words denoting different emotions quantified order to determine relative cultural significance. Word analyzed any manifestations display rules. results indicate that are preferentially lexicalized as adjectives. Negative expressed verbs, positive – nouns. boasts more for negative than emotions, confirming presence differentiation effect. At same time, less numerous found be frequently used, Pollyanna revealed central role English-speaking world. Uniquely, conceptually semantically overlap other regardless valence; mean made it second most frequent overtly, verbally communicated after