Jezikoslovlje, Vol. 3 No. 1-2, 2002.
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PREPOSITIONAL SUBJECTS AS COMPLEMENTS OF ADJECTIVAL PREDICATES
Dubravko Kučanda
; Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Osijeku
Sažetak
This paper discusses the functions of prepositional phrases with for and of as complements
of adjectival predicates. The for phrase is usually described as a device which
introduces the subject of the following infinitival verbal predicate, whereas of is assigned
only a pragmatic function of facilitating the mentioning of the person being
discussed. It is shown that there is no syntactic or semantic/pragmatic difference between
the two prepositional phrases and that they should therefore be given identical
treatment. Neither prepositional phrase exhibits any of the coding or behavioural properties
of a typical subject. They introduce the NP which is the semantic argument of
the following predicate, but they do not have a clear syntactic function.
Ključne riječi
subject; prepositional phrase; adjective complementation; grammatical constructions; syntactic functions
Hrčak ID:
31346
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Datum izdavanja:
13.12.2002.
Posjeta: 2.103 *