OKOLNOSNI SEKUNDARNI PREDIKATI U DATIVU

Abstract

The paper deals with secondary predicates marked by the dative case. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate that constructions with secondary predicates in the dative case are relevant for the ongoing discussion about the criteria of differentiation between depictive and circumstantial secondary predicates. We demonstrate that secondary predicates in the dative case are predominately circumstantial. They are parenthetical and have a propositional content that is not subject to negation of the sentence they are used in. In addition, they show a strong tendency to be expressed in the clause-initial position or before the verb. They are almost exclusively used with adjectives of physiological, psychophysiological and mental states over which the referents either lose control or have no control at all. By relying on corpus analysis and the
analysis of semantic frames, we examine the premise that secondary predicates marked by the dative case are factors in the cause-and-effect patterns, typically factors of rationalization of the way referents act or the way they experience things in situations over which they have no control. Finally, it is proposed that the realization of the circumstantial function of secondary predicates marked by the dative case can be predicted by the semantic role of their controllers. As a rule, secondary predicates in the dative case will have a circumstantial function when their controller is the experiencer.