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Subject Clauses in Media Headlines

Author(s): Kalina Barenska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Philology
Published by: Факултет по славянски филологии, Софийски университет »Св. Кл. Охридски«
Keywords: Bulgarian syntax; complex sentence; subject complement clause; impersonal predicate

Summary/Abstract: The present research represents the characteristics of the main clauses that take a subject complement clause as their syntactic arguments. The study bases on data from Bulgarian online media headlines, related to culture as their main topic. The study aims to describe various predicates in the main clause from a grammatical perspective, as well as from a semantic one. The relation between complementizers and different predicates is also taken into account. Based on the results, it can be concluded that adverbial predicate is most likely to have a subject complement clause as their argument in the data studied. People tend to use this type of subordinate clause in media news about culture, mainly to express abstract ideas – no matter if these ideas are their own reflections or popular thoughts.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 113-125
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Bulgarian
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