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Do meteorological predicatons have subjects?

Dubravko Kučanda ; Pedagoški fakultet, Osijek

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This paper argues that the issue of the subject of meteorological predications is language-dependent. The real question is not whether meteorological predications have (universally) subjects or not but whether meteorological predications in language X contain a constituent with subject properties.When subject is viewed as a morphosyntactic category with a number of coding and behavioural properties, which may, but need not coincide with semantic or pragmatic properties, then it is obvious that the subject of meteorological predications is a matter of cline. Cross-linguistically, meteorological predications are basically zerovalent. i.e., they do not contain a predicate argument, but this does not rule out the possibility that the subject slot may be filled by a nonreferential dummy element that has a great number of subject-like coding and behavioural properties.

Ključne riječi

subject; meteorological predications; coding properties

Hrčak ID:

157415

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/157415

Datum izdavanja:

26.6.2000.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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